Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 10

All the little sprites who went to his school--for he kept a sprite school--told each other that a miracle had happened; and that now only, as they thought, it would be possible to see how the world really looked.

Who acts: little sprites, thought, sprite school, miracle, sprite, it · What happens: go, keep, tell, happen, think, be · To what, where: school, sprite school, other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (little sprites, thought, sprite school, miracle), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sprites	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sprites	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sprites	amod
4	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprites	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 school	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 school	nmod:poss
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 kept	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 school	det
15	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 school	compound
16	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 school	acl
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 told	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 happened	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 miracle	det
23	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 happened	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 happened	aux
25	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 told	ccomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thought	cc
28	that	that	ADV	_	30 only	advmod
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 only	advmod
30	only	only	ADV	_	34 thought	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 thought	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprites	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 possible	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 possible	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 possible	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 possible	cop
39	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thought	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 see	mark
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 possible	csubj
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	46 looked	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 looked	nsubj
45	really	really	ADV	_	46 looked	advmod
46	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 see	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sprites	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	all little sprites		thought's school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
2	keep	past	thought	a sprite school			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	participle	a sprite school not said here	each other			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect	a miracle				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	sprite				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	it			possible property	tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	look	past	the world				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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