Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 129
“Yes, she is longing for me, no doubt: she is sorrowing for me, as she did for little Kay.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: long, sorrow, do · To what, where: doubt
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 (grandmother), 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 | _ | 6 longing | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 longing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 longing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 longing | aux |
| 6 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 longing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doubt | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 doubt | det |
| 11 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 longing | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 sorrowing | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sorrowing | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sorrowing | aux |
| 15 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 longing | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sorrowing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 did | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sorrowing | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Kay | case |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Kay | amod |
| 24 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 did | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 longing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long in a quote | present · progressive | grandmother | no doubt | for a little bright sun = sun | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=Theme | |||
| 2 | sorrow in a quote | present · progressive | grandmother | for a little bright sun = sun | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | grandmother | for little Kay | vn act-114-1 «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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