Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 76
Afterwards, when she brought her picture-book, he asked, “What horrid beasts have you there?”
Who acts: rose, sun, horrid beasts · What happens: bring, ask, have · To what, where: picture book, you · 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 (rose, sun, horrid beasts), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Afterwards | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 book | nmod:poss |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 picture | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 have | obj |
| 16 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beasts | amod |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 have | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | rose | rose's picture book | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | sun | afterwards property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | horrid beasts | you | there | tree rules |
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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