Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 35
Then they carried Kay and Gerda first to the Finland woman, where they warmed themselves thoroughly in the hot room, and she gave them directions about their journey home.
Who acts: words, woman · What happens: carry, warm, give, journey · To what, where: Kay, Finland woman, words, hot room, directions
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, woman), 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 carried | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Gerda | cc |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kay | conj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 carried | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 woman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 woman | compound |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 warmed | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 warmed | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 warmed | nsubj |
| 15 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 warmed | obj |
| 17 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 15 warmed | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 room | amod |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 warmed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | iobj |
| 27 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gave | obj |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 journey | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 journey | nmod:poss |
| 30 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 directions | nmod |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 gave | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | words = word | Kay and Gerda | the Finland woman | then | first property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kay=Theme to woman=Destination | |
| 2 | warm | past | words = word | words = word | the hot room | thoroughly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||
| 3 | give | past | woman | directions | words = word | about words's journey; home property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient direction=Theme | ||
| 4 | journey | words = word | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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