Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 9
If a good thought passed through a man's mind, then a grin was seen in the mirror, and the sprite laughed heartily at his clever discovery.
Who acts: good thought, sprite, man, thought · What happens: pass, see, laugh, mind, discover · To what, where: mind, grin, mirror, clever discovery
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 (good thought, sprite, man, thought), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thought | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | amod |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 man | case |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 seen | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 grin | det |
| 14 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mirror | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mirror | det |
| 19 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seen | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laughed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 laughed | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sprite | det |
| 23 | sprite | sprite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laughed | nsubj |
| 24 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 25 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 24 laughed | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 discovery | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 28 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 discovery | amod |
| 29 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laughed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a good thought | a man's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | a grin | the mirror | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | laugh | past | the sprite | thought's clever discovery | heartily property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | mind | a man | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | discover | thought | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=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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