Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 103
“We have travelled fast,” said she; “but it is freezingly cold.
Who acts: We, queen, sledge · What happens: travell, say, be · 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 (We, queen, sledge), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | aux |
| 4 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 cold | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cold | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cold | cop |
| 15 | freezingly | freezingly | ADV | _ | 16 cold | advmod |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell in a quote | present · perfect | We | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | sledge | cold, freezingly property | tree rules |
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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