Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 25
So she took Gerda to a corner of the hall, where some straw and carpets were laid down.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, lay down · To what, where: Gerda, corner, straw
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corner | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laid | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 laid | advmod |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 straw | det |
| 14 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carpets | cc |
| 16 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 straw | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 laid | aux:pass |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 laid | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | girl | Gerda | a corner of the hall | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to corner=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay down | past · passive | some straw and carpets | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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