Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 100
It was a lady; her cloak and cap were of snow.
Who acts: sledge, cloak · What happens: be · To what, where: lady
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 (sledge, cloak), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lady | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 cloak | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cap | cc |
| 9 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloak | conj |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cloak | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 snow | case |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 were | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sledge | a lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | Gerda's cloak and cap not said here | of snow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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