Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 75
“What are you doing?” cried the little girl; and as he perceived her fright, he pulled up another rose, got in at the window, and hastened off from dear little Gerda.
Who acts: you, little girl, sun, Girl · What happens: do, cry, perceive, pull up, get in, hasten off · To what, where: fright, rose, window, dear little Gerda · 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 (you, little girl, sun, 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 doing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 pulled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pulled | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 perceived | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 perceived | nsubj |
| 16 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pulled | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fright | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perceived | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 perceived | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pulled | nsubj |
| 21 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 pulled | compound:prt |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 rose | det |
| 24 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pulled | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 window | det |
| 30 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hastened | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hastened | cc |
| 33 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cried | conj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 hastened | compound:prt |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 Gerda | case |
| 36 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Gerda | amod |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Gerda | amod |
| 38 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 hastened | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the little girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | perceive | past | sun | Girl's fright | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pull up | past | sun | another rose | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get in | past | sun not said here | the window | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | hasten off | participle | the little girl not said here | dear little Gerda | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from gerda=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | fright | Girl | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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