Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 56

And the children held each other by the hand, kissed the roses, looked up at the clear sunshine, and spoke as though they really saw angels there.

Who acts: children · What happens: hold, kiss, look up, speak, see · To what, where: each, roses, angels · 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 (children), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 held	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 held	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hand	det
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kissed	punct
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roses	det
13	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kissed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kissed	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 looked	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 sunshine	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sunshine	det
19	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sunshine	amod
20	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spoke	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spoke	cc
23	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	parataxis
24	as	as	ADV	_	23 spoke	advmod
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
27	really	really	ADV	_	28 saw	advmod
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spoke	advcl
29	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 saw	obj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 saw	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the children	each		by the hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location
2	kiss	past		the roses			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent
3	look up	past				at the clear sunshine	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sunshine=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	children = child	angels	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus

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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