Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 102
“There were once upon a time three sisters, quite transparent, and very beautiful.
What happens: be
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: 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 | _ | 12 transparent | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 transparent | cop |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 were | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 were | obl |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sisters | nummod |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 transparent | punct |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 transparent | advmod |
| 12 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 transparent | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 transparent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | transparent property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | tree rules |
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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