Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 13

She loosened little Gerda's dress, and took off the fur boots and the mittens, or Gerda would have been unable to bear the heat; and then she placed a piece of ice on the reindeer's head, and read what was written on the dried fish.

Who acts: woman, Gerda · What happens: loosen, take off, be, bear, place, read · To what, where: dress, fur boots, heat, piece, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loosened	nsubj
2	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Gerda	amod
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dress	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Gerda	case
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loosened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loosened	parataxis
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boots	det
12	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boots	compound
13	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mittens	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mittens	det
16	mittens	mitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 boots	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 unable	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 unable	cc
19	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 unable	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 unable	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 unable	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 unable	cop
23	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 took	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bear	mark
25	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 unable	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heat	det
27	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bear	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 placed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 placed	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 placed	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 placed	nsubj
32	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loosened	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 piece	det
34	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 placed	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 ice	case
36	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 piece	nmod
37	on	on	ADP	_	41 head	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 reindeer	det
39	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 head	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 reindeer	case
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 placed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 read	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 read	cc
44	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 placed	advcl
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	47 written	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 written	aux:pass
47	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 read	ccomp
48	on	on	ADP	_	51 fish	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 fish	det
50	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 fish	amod
51	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 written	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loosened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	loosen	past	woman	little Gerda's dress				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
2	take off	past		the fur boots and the mittens				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
3	is	would · perfect	Gerda				unable property	tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here	the heat				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient
5	place	past	woman	a piece of ice	the reindeer's head	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on head=Destination
6	read	infinitive	woman not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	write	past · passive					on the dried fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on fish=Destination
8	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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