Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 20

Then the wicked sprite laughed till he almost choked, for all this tickled his fancy.

Who acts: wicked sprite, heart, this · What happens: laugh, choke, tickle, fancy · To what, where: fancy

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 (wicked sprite, heart, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 laughed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sprite	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sprite	amod
4	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	nsubj
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 choked	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 choked	nsubj
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 choked	advmod
9	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tickled	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 tickled	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 tickled	det:predet
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 tickled	nsubj
14	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 choked	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fancy	nmod:poss
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tickled	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the wicked sprite		then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	choke	past	heart			almost property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	tickle	past	this	heart's fancy			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Experiencer
4	fancy		heart				nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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