Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 38
“Yes,” said the grandmother, “she flies where the swarm hangs in the thickest clusters.
Who acts: grandmother, swarm · What happens: say, fly, hang · To what, where: thickest clusters · 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 (grandmother, swarm), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grandmother | det |
| 7 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flies | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 flies | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flies | nsubj |
| 11 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 hangs | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swarm | det |
| 14 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hangs | nsubj |
| 15 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flies | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 clusters | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clusters | det |
| 18 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 clusters | amod |
| 19 | clusters | cluster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hangs | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the grandmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fly in a quote | present | grandmother | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hang in a quote | present | the swarm | the thickest clusters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cluster=Location |
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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