Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 54
But Gerda and Kay went hand-in-hand towards home; and as they advanced, spring appeared more lovely with its green verdure and its beautiful flowers.
Who acts: Gerda, hands, spring · What happens: go, advance, appear · To what, where: hand hand
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 (Gerda, hands, spring), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Kay | cc |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gerda | conj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 appeared | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 advanced | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 advanced | nsubj |
| 17 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 appeared | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 advanced | punct |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 lovely | advmod |
| 22 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 appeared | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 verdure | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 verdure | nmod:poss |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 verdure | amod |
| 26 | verdure | verdure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lovely | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flowers | cc |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 flowers | amod |
| 30 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 verdure | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Gerda and Kay | hand hand | towards home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards home=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | advance | past | hands = hand | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | spring | lovely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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