Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 39

She is the largest of all; and she can never remain quietly on the earth, but goes up again into the black clouds.

Who acts: swarm · What happens: be, not remain, go up · To what, where: earth, black clouds

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 (swarm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:879): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 largest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 largest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 largest	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 largest	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 remain	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 remain	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 remain	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 remain	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 remain	advmod
12	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 largest	conj
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 remain	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remain	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 goes	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 goes	cc
19	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 remain	conj
20	up	up	ADV	_	19 goes	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 goes	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 clouds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 clouds	det
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 clouds	amod
25	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 goes	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 largest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	swarm			of all; large property	tree rules
2	not remain	can	swarm	the earth		quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location
3	go up	present	swarm not said here	the black clouds	again		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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