Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 115
That is our way of singing, the only one we have.”
Who acts: That, way, we · What happens: be, sing, have · To what, where: way, only one
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 (That, way, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | cop |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 singing | mark |
| 6 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 way | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 way | appos |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | our way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | our way not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | we | the only one not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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