Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 67

“Many thanks!” said little Gerda; and she went to the other flowers, looked into their cups, and asked, “Don't you know where little Kay is?”

Who acts: Many thanks, Gerda, you, little Kay · What happens: say, go, look, ask, do, not know · To what, where: other flowers · 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 (Many thanks, Gerda, you, little 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thanks	amod
3	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thanks	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thanks	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Gerda	amod
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flowers	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flowers	amod
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 cups	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cups	nmod:poss
21	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Do	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Do	punct
27	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 asked	ccomp
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Do	advcl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 is	advmod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Kay	amod
33	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 is	nsubj
34	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 know	ccomp
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 Do	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Many thanks			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Gerda	the other flowers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to flower=Initial_Location
3	look	past	Gerda not said here		into thanks's cups	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into cup=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Gerda not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be in a quote	present	little Kay			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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