Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 10

“Kay is dead and gone!” said little Gerda.

Who acts: Kay, little Gerda · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, little Gerda), 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	_	4 dead	punct
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gone	cc
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Gerda	amod
11	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Kay	dead property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		Kay not said here		tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	little Gerda		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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