Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 32

There stood poor Gerda, without shoes, without gloves, in the midst of cold, dreary, ice-bound Finland.

What happens: stand, bind · To what, where: poor Gerda, midst, Finland

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Gerda	amod
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shoes	punct
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gloves	punct
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 gloves	case
10	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 midst	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 midst	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 midst	det
14	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 cold	case
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 midst	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dreary	punct
18	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cold	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bound	punct
20	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bound	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 ice	punct
22	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
23	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bound	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		poor Gerda		the midst of cold; there		without shoes; without gloves	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme in midst=Destination
2	bind	participle		Finland					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finland=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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