Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 100
“What you relate may be very pretty, but you tell it in so melancholy a manner, and do not mention Kay.”
Who acts: you · What happens: relate, be, tell, not mention · To what, where: manner, swing, melancholy, Kay · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 8 pretty | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 pretty | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 relate | nsubj |
| 4 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretty | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretty | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 pretty | advmod |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretty | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 melancholy | case |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 melancholy | advmod |
| 16 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 manner | det |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mention | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mention | cc |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 mention | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 mention | advmod |
| 23 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tell | conj |
| 24 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mention | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretty | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate in a quote | present | you | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | may | pretty property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | you | a manner | swing | melancholy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient manner=Topic | ||
| 4 | not mention speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | Kay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kay=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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