Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 59

Kay and Gerda looked at the picture-book full of beasts and of birds; and it was then--the clock in the church-tower was just striking five--that Kay said, “Oh!

Who acts: Kay, bird, clock · What happens: look, be, strike, say · To what, where: clock, church tower, five · 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 (Kay, bird, clock), 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	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Gerda	cc
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kay	conj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 book	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 book	det
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 book	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 picture	punct
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 book	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 beasts	case
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 birds	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 birds	case
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 beasts	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 striking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clock	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 clock	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clock	cop
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 clock	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 clock	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 clock	det
23	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 striking	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 tower	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tower	det
26	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tower	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 church	punct
28	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clock	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 striking	aux
30	just	just	ADV	_	31 striking	advmod
31	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 looked	advcl
32	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 striking	obj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 said	mark
35	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 said	nsubj
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 striking	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Oh	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 Oh	punct
39	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	36 said	ccomp
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Kay and Gerda				at the picture book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme
2	is a	past	bird	the clock	the church tower	then		tree rules
3	strike	past · progressive	the clock	five				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Kay					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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