Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 38

Then little Gerda repeated the Lord's Prayer, and the cold was so great that she could see her own breath come out of her mouth like steam as she uttered the words.

Who acts: little Gerda, cold, Gerda, great · What happens: repeat, be, see, come out, utter · To what, where: Prayer, own breath, words

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 (little Gerda, cold, Gerda, great), 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	4 repeated	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Gerda	amod
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	nsubj
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lord	det
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Prayer	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Lord	case
8	Prayer	Prayer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 great	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 great	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cold	det
12	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 great	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 great	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 great	advmod
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 come	nsubj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 see	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 great	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 breath	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 breath	amod
22	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 repeated	parataxis
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 steam	case
29	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 uttered	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 uttered	nsubj
32	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 repeated	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 words	det
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 uttered	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	little Gerda	the Lord's Prayer	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Eventuality
2	is	past	the cold			great property	tree rules
3	see	could	Gerda	Gerda's own breath			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus
4	come out	present	great			of Gerda's mouth; like steam; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	utter speech: other	past	Gerda	the words			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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