Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 41
Their number continued to increase more and more; and by the time Gerda had finished her prayers, a whole legion stood round her.
Who acts: number, whole legion, Gerda · What happens: continue, increase, finish, stand, pray · To what, where: Gerda
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 (number, whole legion, Gerda), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 number | nmod:poss |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 increase | mark |
| 5 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | xcomp |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 increase | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 more | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 more | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 finished | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finished | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | obl |
| 14 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | aux |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 continued | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 finished | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 legion | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 legion | amod |
| 22 | legion | legion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 continued | conj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | shapes's number | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | increase | to-infinitive | shapes's number not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect · passive | Gerda | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | a whole legion | round Gerda | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pray | Gerda | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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