Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 105
And she put him in the sledge beside her, wrapped the fur round him, and he felt as though he were sinking in a snow-wreath.
Who acts: queen, Prayer · What happens: put, wrap, feel, sink · To what, where: Prayer, sledge, fur, snow wreath
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 (queen, Prayer), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 put | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sledge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sledge | det |
| 7 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrapped | punct |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fur | det |
| 13 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 felt | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 felt | advmod |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 sinking | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sinking | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sinking | aux |
| 24 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 felt | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wreath | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 wreath | det |
| 27 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wreath | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 snow | punct |
| 29 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sinking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | queen | Prayer | the sledge | beside Gerda | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sledge=Destination | ||
| 2 | wrap | past | queen not said here | the fur | round Prayer | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fur=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Prayer | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | sink | past · progressive | Prayer | a snow wreath | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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