The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 93

There stood poor Gerda, without shoes or gloves in the middle of the bitter cold of Finland.

What happens: stand · To what, where: poor Gerda, middle

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Gerda	amod
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shoes	punct
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 gloves	cc
9	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shoes	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 cold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cold	det
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cold	amod
16	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 middle	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Finland	case
18	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cold	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		poor Gerda		the middle of the bitter cold of Finland; there		without shoes or gloves	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme in middle=Destination

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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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