Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 43
The angels stroked her hands and feet, so that she felt the cold less, and she hastened on to the Snow Queen's castle.
Who acts: angels, Gerda · What happens: stroke, feel, hasten on · To what, where: hands, castle
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 (angels, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 angels | det |
| 2 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stroked | nsubj |
| 3 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stroked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hands | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 felt | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stroked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cold | det |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 felt | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hastened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hastened | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hastened | nsubj |
| 19 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stroked | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 hastened | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 23 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Queen | compound |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 castle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Queen | case |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hastened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | the angels | Gerda's hands and feet | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Gerda | cold, less property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hasten on | past | Gerda | the Snow Queen's castle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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