Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 35

In summer, with one jump, they could get to each other; but in winter they were obliged first to go down the long stairs, and then up the long stairs again: and out-of-doors there was quite a snow-storm.

Who acts: Kay · What happens: get, oblige, go down · To what, where: doors, Kay, long stairs

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 (Kay), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 summer	case
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jump	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 jump	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 jump	nummod
6	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 summer	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 summer	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 get	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 obliged	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 obliged	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 winter	case
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 obliged	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 obliged	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 obliged	aux:pass
20	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 get	conj
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 obliged	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 go	mark
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 obliged	advcl
24	down	down	ADP	_	27 stairs	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stairs	det
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stairs	amod
27	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stairs	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stairs	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 stairs	advmod
31	up	up	ADP	_	34 stairs	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stairs	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stairs	amod
34	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 obliged	obl
35	again	again	ADV	_	34 stairs	advmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 doors	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 doors	cc
38	out	out	ADP	_	42 doors	case
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 out	punct
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 doors	case
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 of	punct
42	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	obl
43	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 was	expl
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 doors	acl:relcl
45	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	49 storm	det:predet
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 storm	det
47	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 storm	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 snow	punct
49	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 was	nsubj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	Kay		doors	summer	to each	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to each=Initial_Location out door=Destination
2	oblige	past · passive		Kay		winter	up the long stairs; first property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	go down	to-infinitive		the long stairs				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent

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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