Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 9
Then she tied her again on the reindeer, and he set off at full speed.
Who acts: woman, reindeer · What happens: tie, set off · To what, where: Gerda, full speed
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 (woman, reindeer), 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 | 3 tied | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 tied | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 reindeer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reindeer | det |
| 8 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 speed | case |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speed | amod |
| 16 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | woman | Gerda | then; again | on the reindeer | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient on reindeer=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | set off | past | reindeer | full speed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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