Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 110
“I cannot help thinking of the dead maidens.
Who acts: little Gerda · What happens: not help, think
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 (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 | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 help | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 maidens | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maidens | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maidens | amod |
| 10 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thinking | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | can | little Gerda = gerda | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | little Gerda = gerda not said here | of the dead maidens | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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