Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 12

So then they thought they would fly up to the sky, and have a joke there.

Who acts: sprite · What happens: think, fly up, have · To what, where: joke · 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 (sprite), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fly	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 fly	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 have	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	sprite			then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fly up	would	sprite				to the sky result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sky=Result
3	have	present		a joke	there			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=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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