Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 118
“Tell me if you know where I can find my playfellow.”
Who acts: you, little bright sun · What happens: tell, know, find · To what, where: little bright sun, playfellow · 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, little bright sun), 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 | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | advcl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 find | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | ccomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 playfellow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | playfellow | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a little bright sun = sun | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | can | a little bright sun = sun | my playfellow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playfellow=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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