Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 77

And if his grandmother told them stories, he always interrupted her; besides, if he could manage it, he would get behind her, put on her spectacles, and imitate her way of speaking; he copied all her ways, and then everybody laughed at him.

Who acts: grandmother, sun, way, everybody · What happens: tell, interrupt, manage, get, put, imitate · To what, where: stories, beasts, grandmother, STORY, spectacles, way · 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 (grandmother, sun, way, everybody), 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	_	11 interrupted	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandmother	nmod:poss
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 interrupted	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 interrupted	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 interrupted	advmod
11	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 interrupted	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 manage	punct
14	besides	besides	ADV	_	19 manage	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 besides	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 manage	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 manage	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 manage	aux
19	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 interrupted	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 manage	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 manage	parataxis
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 get	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 spectacles	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 spectacles	nmod:poss
31	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 imitate	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 imitate	cc
34	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 manage	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 way	nmod:poss
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 imitate	obj
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 speaking	mark
38	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 way	acl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 copied	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 copied	nsubj
41	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 interrupted	parataxis
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 ways	det:predet
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 ways	nmod:poss
44	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 copied	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 laughed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 laughed	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 laughed	advmod
48	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	49 laughed	nsubj
49	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 copied	conj
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 laughed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	sun's grandmother	stories	beasts = beast				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
2	interrupt	past	sun	grandmother				always property	tree rules
3	manage a condition, not said to happen	could	sun	STORY				besides property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	get	would	sun					behind grandmother	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	put	past	sun not said here			grandmother's spectacles			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination
6	imitate	infinitive	sun not said here	grandmother's way					vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
7	speak speech: other	gerund	grandmother's way not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	copy	past	sun	grandmother's ways					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
9	laugh	past	everybody				then	at sun	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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