Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 28
Two miles from here the Snow Queen's garden begins; you can carry the little girl so far, and set her down by the large bush which stands in the snow, covered with red berries.
Who acts: garden, you, large bush · What happens: begin, carry, set down, stand, cover · To what, where: little girl, girl, snow
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 (garden, you, large bush), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 miles | nummod |
| 2 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 here | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 here | case |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 6 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Queen | compound |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Queen | case |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begins | nsubj |
| 10 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 here | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 far | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 carry | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 bush | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bush | det |
| 27 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bush | amod |
| 28 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 stands | nsubj |
| 30 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bush | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 snow | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 snow | det |
| 33 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stands | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 covered | punct |
| 35 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 snow | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 berries | case |
| 37 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 berries | amod |
| 38 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 covered | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the Snow Queen's garden | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | carry | can | you | the little girl | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 3 | set down | past | you not said here | girl | by the large bush | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bush=Destination | |||
| 4 | stand | present | the large bush | the snow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location | ||||
| 5 | cover | participle | the snow not said here | with red berries | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with berry=Theme |
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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