Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 83

“Look through this glass, Gerda,” said he.

Who acts: sun · What happens: look, say · To what, where: 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 (sun), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 glass	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 glass	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Gerda	punct
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive		Gerda				through this glass	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through glass=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	sun						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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