Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 42

They thrust their spears into the terrible snow-flakes, so that they shivered into a hundred pieces, and little Gerda could go forward with courage and safety.

Who acts: shapes, little Gerda · What happens: thrust, shiver, go · To what, where: spears, terrible snow flakes, hundred pieces

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 (shapes, little 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thrust	nsubj
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spears	nmod:poss
4	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thrust	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	10 flakes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flakes	det
7	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flakes	amod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flakes	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snow	punct
10	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thrust	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shivered	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 shivered	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shivered	nsubj
15	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thrust	parataxis
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 pieces	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pieces	det
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pieces	nummod
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shivered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Gerda	amod
23	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 go	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 shivered	conj
26	forward	forward	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 courage	case
28	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 safety	cc
30	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 courage	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thrust	past	shapes = shape	shapes's spears	the terrible snow flakes		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
2	shiver	past	shapes = shape		a hundred pieces		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	could	little Gerda			with courage and safety; forward property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with courage=Beneficiary

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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