Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 114
“We do not toll for little Kay; we do not know him.
Who acts: We · What happens: not toll, not know · To what, where: Kay
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 (We), 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 toll | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 toll | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 toll | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 toll | advmod |
| 5 | toll | toll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Kay | case |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Kay | amod |
| 8 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 toll | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 toll | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 toll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not toll in a quote | present · do-support | We | for little Kay | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | we | Kay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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