Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 2
Of the Flower-Garden At the Old Woman's Who Understood Witchcraft
Who acts: Old Woman · What happens: understand
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 (Old Woman), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Garden | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Garden | det |
| 3 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Garden | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Flower | punct |
| 5 | Garden | Garden | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | At | at | ADP | _ | 9 Woman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Woman | det |
| 8 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Woman | amod |
| 9 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Garden | nmod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Woman | case |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 Understood | nsubj |
| 12 | Understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Witchcraft | Witchcraft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Garden | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the Old Woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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