Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 87
They are as exact as possible; there is not a fault in them, if they did not melt!”
Who acts: Kay, fault · What happens: be, not melt
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 (Kay, fault), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 exact | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exact | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 exact | advmod |
| 4 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 possible | mark |
| 6 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exact | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exact | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 fault | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fault | det |
| 12 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fault | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 melt | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 melt | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 melt | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 melt | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 melt | advmod |
| 20 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 exact | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 melt | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 exact | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Kay | exact property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a fault in Kay | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not melt a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | Kay | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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