Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 106
“Are you still cold?” asked she; and then she kissed his forehead.
Who acts: queen, cold · What happens: be, ask, kiss · To what, where: queen, forehead · 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 (queen, cold), 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 | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 cold | advmod |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cold | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kissed | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 kissed | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kissed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | queen | still | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | cold | queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | queen | Prayer's forehead | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent |
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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