--- title: The lake was not frozen sufficiently for her to pass over on the ice… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/) / 32 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:185:32 # text = 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. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 sufficiently sufficiently ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 19 cc _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 20 enough enough ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 wade wade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 yet yet ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/33/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/185/)