Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 75
And then Gerda stretched out her hand, with the great mitten on it, towards the little robber-girl, and said, "Farewell," and away flew the reindeer, over stumps and stones, through the great forest, over marshes and plains, as quickly as he could.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: stretch out, say, fly · To what, where: hand, reindeer, stumps · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gerda), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stretched | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stretched | advmod |
| 3 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stretched | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mitten | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mitten | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mitten | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mitten | amod |
| 12 | mitten | mitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mitten | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 girl | punct |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 girl | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 19 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 girl | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 robber | punct |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Farewell | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Farewell | punct |
| 27 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 32 flew | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Farewell | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Farewell | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 away | cc |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 Farewell | conj |
| 32 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 reindeer | det |
| 34 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flew | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stumps | punct |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 stumps | case |
| 37 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 flew | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stones | cc |
| 39 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 stumps | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 forest | punct |
| 41 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 forest | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 forest | det |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 forest | amod |
| 44 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flew | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 marshes | punct |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 47 marshes | case |
| 47 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 flew | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 plains | cc |
| 49 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 marshes | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 quickly | punct |
| 51 | as | as | ADV | _ | 52 quickly | advmod |
| 52 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 32 flew | advmod |
| 53 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 could | mark |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 could | nsubj |
| 55 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 quickly | advcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Gerda | Gerda's hand | then | with the great mitten on mind | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with mitten=Instrument | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gerda not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | the reindeer | stumps and stones | over marshes and plains; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme over stump=Initial_Location over marsh=Trajectory |
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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