Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 43
“Only let her come in!” said the little boy.
Who acts: Girl, little boy · What happens: let, come in, say · To what, where: Girl · 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 (Girl, little boy), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boy | amod |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in in a quote | infinitive | Girl not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the little boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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