Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 70
“Hearest thou not the drum?
Who acts: thou · What happens: not hear · To what, where: drum
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 (thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:1007): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hearest | punct |
| 2 | Hearest | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Hearest | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Hearest | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drum | det |
| 6 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hearest | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hearest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear in a quote | present | thou | the drum | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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