Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 32

The lake was not frozen sufficiently for her to pass over on the ice, nor was it open enough for her to wade through; and yet she must cross it, if she wished to find her child.

Who acts: Death, lake · What happens: not freeze, pass over, be, wade through, cross, wish · To what, where: lake, ice, child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, lake), 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 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 frozen	advmod
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	5 frozen	advmod
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 pass	mark
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pass	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pass	mark
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frozen	advcl
11	over	over	ADV	_	10 pass	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 ice	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ice	det
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 open	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 open	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 open	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 open	nsubj
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pass	parataxis
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 open	advmod
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 wade	mark
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wade	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 wade	mark
24	wade	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 open	advcl
25	through	through	ADP	_	24 wade	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 cross	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cross	cc
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 cross	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cross	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cross	aux
31	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frozen	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cross	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wished	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 wished	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wished	nsubj
36	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cross	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 find	mark
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 wished	xcomp
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 child	nmod:poss
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 find	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not freeze	past · passive		the lake			sufficiently property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	pass over	to-infinitive	Death		the ice		over property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ice=Location
3	is	past	lake				enough, open property	tree rules
4	wade through	to-infinitive	Death					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cross	must	Death	lake		yet		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	Death					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	Death not said here	Death's child				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic

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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