Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 13
“That I don't believe,” said they: and at last little Gerda did not think so any longer either.
Who acts: That, Swallows · What happens: not believe, say, not think · To what, where: last little Gerda · 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 (That, Swallows), 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 believe | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 believe | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 think | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Gerda | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Gerda | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Gerda | amod |
| 16 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 think | obl |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 think | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 think | advmod |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 any | advmod |
| 21 | any | any | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 think | advmod |
| 23 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 longer | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | That | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Swallows = swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | Swallows = swallow not said here | last little Gerda | long property | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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