Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 120
What song could the Ranunculus sing?
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 could | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sing | det |
| 5 | Ranunculus | Ranunculus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | compound |
| 6 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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