Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 66
“We have been in the earth where all the dead are, but Kay was not there.”
Who acts: We, Kay · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: earth
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 (We, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 earth | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 earth | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 earth | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 earth | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 dead | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 dead | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dead | det |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 earth | acl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dead | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 there | cc |
| 15 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 there | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 there | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 earth | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 earth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | We | the earth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | dead property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | past | Kay | there property | tree rules |
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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