Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 51
She fell asleep, and had as pleasant dreams as ever a queen on her wedding-day.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: fall, have
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 dreams | case |
| 8 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dreams | amod |
| 9 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 queen | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 queen | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 day | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 wedding | punct |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 queen | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Gerda | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Gerda not said here | as pleasant dreams; as a queen on Gerda's wedding day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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