Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 76

Hark to the plaintive song of the old woman, to the call of the priests!

Who acts: old woman · What happens: sing, call · To what, where: priests · 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 (old woman), 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	Hark	Hark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 song	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 song	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 song	det
4	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 song	amod
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 call	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 call	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 call	det
13	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 priests	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 priests	det
16	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 call	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 song	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing		the old woman						nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent
2	call			the priests					nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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