Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 58
“Are there no roses here?” and she ran about amongst the flowerbeds, and looked, and looked, but there was not one to be found.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: be, run about, look, not be, find · To what, where: roses, flowerbeds, one
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 roses | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 roses | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Are | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 roses | det |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 here | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 here | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 13 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 15 flowerbeds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flowerbeds | det |
| 15 | flowerbeds | flowerbed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looked | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 was | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 was | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 one | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 one | advmod |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 looked | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 found | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 found | aux:pass |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 one | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | no roses | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run about | past | Gerda | the flowerbeds | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst flowerbed=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | look | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | look | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | not is a | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive · passive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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