Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 25
They were not brother and sister; but they cared for each other as much as if they were.
Who acts: houses · What happens: not be, care, be · To what, where: brother, much
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 (houses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brother | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 brother | advmod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sister | cc |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 cared | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 cared | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cared | nsubj |
| 10 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 cared | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cared | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 were | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 much | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | houses = house | brother and sister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | care | past | houses = house | much | for each | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | past | houses = house | vn exist-47.1 «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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