Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 49
She was so beautiful and delicate, but she was of ice, of dazzling, sparkling ice; yet she lived; her eyes gazed fixedly, like two stars; but there was neither quiet nor repose in them.
Who acts: grandmother, eyes · What happens: be, sparkle, live, gaze, repose · To what, where: ice
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, eyes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 delicate | cc |
| 6 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ice | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 ice | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ice | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ice | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ice | case |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dazzling | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dazzling | case |
| 15 | dazzling | dazzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ice | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sparkling | punct |
| 17 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ice | conj |
| 18 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sparkling | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 20 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 lived | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | parataxis |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gazed | punct |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gazed | nsubj |
| 26 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lived | conj |
| 27 | fixedly | fixedly | ADV | _ | 26 gazed | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stars | punct |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 stars | case |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 stars | nummod |
| 31 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gazed | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 quiet | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 was | cc |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 was | expl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 quiet | cop |
| 36 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 37 quiet | advmod |
| 37 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beautiful | parataxis |
| 38 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 39 repose | cc |
| 39 | repose | repose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 quiet | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 repose | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | grandmother | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | grandmother not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | grandmother | of ice and dazzling | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sparkle | gerund | grandmother not said here | ice | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | past | grandmother | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | gaze | past | grandmother's eyes | like two stars; fixedly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | neither, quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | repose | infinitive | in stars = star | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in they=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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