Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 35
Gerda remembered how large and beautiful they looked through the burning-glass.
Who acts: Gerda, flakes · What happens: remember, look
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 (Gerda, flakes), 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 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 large | advmod |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 remembered | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beautiful | cc |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 large | conj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 glass | det |
| 11 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glass | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 burning | punct |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Gerda | large property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | flakes = flake | through the burning glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through glass=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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