Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 44
“Then I'd put her on the stove, and she'd melt.”
Who acts: little boy, Girl · What happens: put, melt · To what, where: Girl, stove
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 (little boy, Girl), 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 put | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 put | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stove | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stove | det |
| 9 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 melt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 melt | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 melt | nsubj |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 melt | aux |
| 14 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | would | the little boy = boy | Girl | the stove | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on stove=Destination | ||
| 2 | melt in a quote | would | Girl | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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