Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 138

She stands now on one leg, now on both; she despises the whole world; yet she lives only in imagination.

Who acts: garret · What happens: stand, despise, live · To what, where: one leg, whole world, imagination

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 (garret), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stands	nsubj
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stands	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 leg	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 leg	nummod
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 both	punct
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 both	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 both	case
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 stands	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 despises	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 despises	nsubj
13	despises	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stands	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 world	amod
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 despises	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lives	punct
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 lives	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lives	nsubj
20	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stands	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 imagination	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 imagination	case
23	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lives	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	garret		one leg	now	on both	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
2	despise	present	garret	the whole world				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
3	live	present	garret		imagination			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in imagination=Location

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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