Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 26

“Perhaps the river will carry me to little Kay,” said she; and then she grew less sad.

Who acts: river, Gerda · What happens: carry, say, grow · To what, where: Gerda, little Kay · 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 (river, Gerda), 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 carry	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 carry	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 carry	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Kay	case
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Kay	amod
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grew	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 grew	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 sad	advmod
21	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry in a quote	future	the river	Gerda	little Kay		perhaps property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to kay=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Gerda					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow	past	Gerda			then	sad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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