Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 80
But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made him tease even little Gerda, whose whole soul was devoted to him.
Who acts: peculiar, sun, glass, heart · What happens: be, get, stick, make, tease, devote · To what, where: glass, eye, heart, sun, little Gerda, whole soul
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 (peculiar, sun, glass, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 glass | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 glass | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glass | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glass | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 glass | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 eye | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eye | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 glass | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 glass | det |
| 14 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glass | appos |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sticking | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sticking | aux |
| 17 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 glass | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sticking | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heart | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | tease | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 made | xcomp |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 Gerda | advmod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Gerda | amod |
| 28 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tease | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 devoted | punct |
| 30 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 32 soul | nmod:poss |
| 31 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 soul | amod |
| 32 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 devoted | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 devoted | aux:pass |
| 34 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Gerda | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 devoted | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | peculiar | the glass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | sun | the glass not said here | sun's eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stick | past · progressive | the glass | sun's heart | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in heart=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make | past | sun's heart | sun | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tease | infinitive | sun not said here | little Gerda | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Patient | ||||
| 6 | devote | past · passive | whole soul | sun | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
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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