Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 21
The fine splinters still flew about in the air: and now we shall hear what happened next.
Who acts: fine splinters, we · What happens: fly, hear, happen · 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 (fine splinters, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 splinters | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 splinters | amod |
| 3 | splinters | splinter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hear | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 hear | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hear | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hear | aux |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 flew | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hear | ccomp |
| 18 | next | next | ADV | _ | 17 happened | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the fine splinters | still | about the air | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about air=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | shall | we | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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