Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 3

But what became of little Gerda when Kay did not return?

Who acts: Kay · What happens: become, not return

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 (Kay), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 became	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Gerda	case
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Gerda	amod
6	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 became	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 return	mark
8	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 return	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 return	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 return	advmod
11	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 became	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past						of little Gerda	tree rules
2	not return	past · do-support	Kay						vn escape-51.1-1 «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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