Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 16
“Is it true that you have taken my little playfellow?
Who acts: river, you · What happens: be, take · To what, where: little playfellow
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 (river, you), 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 | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 taken | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 true | advcl |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 playfellow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 playfellow | amod |
| 11 | playfellow | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | river | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · perfect | you | my little playfellow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playfellow=Theme |
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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