Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 16
This happened because the very smallest bit had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed.
Who acts: This, smallest bit · What happens: happen, have, possess · To what, where: same power, whole mirror
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 (This, smallest bit), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 smallest | advmod |
| 6 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 power | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 power | amod |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 possessed | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mirror | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mirror | amod |
| 15 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 possessed | aux |
| 17 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 power | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | This | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the smallest bit | the same power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | possess | past · perfect · passive | the whole mirror | 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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