Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 44

“Now you shall see how well we agree together”; and while she combed little Gerda's hair, the child forgot her foster-brother Kay more and more, for the old woman understood magic; but she was no evil being, she only practised witchcraft a little for her own private amusement, and now she wanted very much to keep little Gerda.

Who acts: you, we, Woman, child, old woman · What happens: see, agree, comb, forget, understand, be · To what, where: hair, foster brother, evil, little Gerda · 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 (you, we, Woman, child), 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 see	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 see	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 see	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 agree	nsubj
9	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 agree	advmod
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 agree	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 combed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 combed	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 combed	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 combed	nsubj
16	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	advcl
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Gerda	amod
18	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hair	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Gerda	case
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 combed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forgot	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forgot	nsubj
24	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 combed	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
26	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brother	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 foster	punct
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forgot	obj
29	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 brother	appos
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 forgot	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 more	cc
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 more	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 understood	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 understood	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 woman	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 woman	amod
37	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 understood	nsubj
38	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forgot	conj
39	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 understood	xcomp
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 evil	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 evil	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 evil	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 evil	cop
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 evil	det
45	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 combed	obl
46	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 practised	cop
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 practised	punct
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 practised	nsubj
49	only	only	ADV	_	50 practised	advmod
50	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 evil	acl:relcl
51	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 practised	obj
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 little	det
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 practised	obl
54	for	for	ADP	_	58 amusement	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 amusement	nmod:poss
56	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 amusement	amod
57	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 amusement	amod
58	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 little	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 wanted	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 wanted	cc
61	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	63 wanted	advmod
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 wanted	nsubj
63	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 practised	advcl
64	very	very	ADV	_	65 much	advmod
65	much	much	ADV	_	63 wanted	advmod
66	to	to	PART	_	67 keep	mark
67	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 wanted	xcomp
68	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 Gerda	amod
69	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 keep	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	shall	you		now	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	agree speech: agree in a quote	present	we			together property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	comb	past	Woman	little Gerda's hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	forget	past	the child	Woman's foster brother			tree rules
5	understand	past	the old woman			magic property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	Woman	no evil			tree rules
7	is	gerund	Woman	no evil not said here		a little for Woman's own private amusement obl; practise property	tree rules
8	want	past	Woman		now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Woman not said here	little Gerda			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme
10	amuse		Woman				nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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