Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 97

He was quite frightened, and he tried to repeat the Lord's Prayer; but all he could do, he was only able to remember the multiplication table.

Who acts: other · What happens: frighten, try, repeat, do, be, remember · To what, where: other, Prayer, multiplication table

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 (other), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 frightened	advmod
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tried	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 repeat	mark
10	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lord	det
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Prayer	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Lord	case
14	Prayer	Prayer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 repeat	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 all	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 frightened	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 all	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 able	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 able	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 able	cop
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 able	advmod
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frightened	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 remember	mark
27	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 table	det
29	multiplication	multiplication	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 table	compound
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remember	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		other		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	try	past	other			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	repeat not said to happen	to-infinitive	other not said here	the Lord's Prayer		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Eventuality
4	do	could	other			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	other		able property	tree rules
6	remember	to-infinitive	other not said here	the multiplication table		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent table=Theme

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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