Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 34
“How did you get upon the large rapid river, to be driven about so in the wide world!”
Who acts: you · What happens: get, drive · To what, where: wide world
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 (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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 river | amod |
| 9 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 river | amod |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 driven | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 driven | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 driven | aux:pass |
| 14 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 get | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 so | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 driven | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 driven | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | upon the large rapid river | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | the wide world | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» |
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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