Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 67

Then she continued her wandering; but she had not gone many steps forward, when she met an old woman with berries in her basket, and she gave her a few to eat.

Who acts: sunbeam · What happens: continue, not go, meet, give, eat, wander · To what, where: wandering, many steps, old woman, basket, few, woman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam), 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 continued	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 wandering	nmod:poss
5	wandering	wandering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 continued	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 gone	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 gone	advmod
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 continued	conj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 steps	amod
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gone	obj
14	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 met	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 met	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 met	nsubj
18	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 berries	case
23	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 woman	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 basket	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 basket	nmod:poss
26	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	nsubj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 few	det
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gave	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 few	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	sunbeam	sunbeam's wandering			then		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wandering=Theme
2	not go	past · perfect	sunbeam	many steps				forward property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
3	meet	past	sunbeam	a old woman		sunbeam's basket		with berries	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme with berry=Instrument
4	give	past	sunbeam	a few	woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient few=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	sunbeam not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wander		sunbeam						nom wandering «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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