Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 30
Then the Finland woman lifted little Gerda upon the reindeer, and he ran away with her as quickly as he could.
Who acts: Finland woman, reindeer · What happens: lift, run away · To what, where: little Gerda, reindeer
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 (Finland woman, reindeer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Gerda | amod |
| 7 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 reindeer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reindeer | det |
| 10 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 quickly | advmod |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 could | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 could | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 quickly | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the Finland woman | little Gerda | the reindeer | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme upon reindeer=Destination | ||
| 2 | run away | past | reindeer | with woman; away, quickly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with she=Material |
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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