Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 87
“Is it Kay that you mean?” asked little Gerda.
Who acts: robe, little Gerda · What happens: be, mean, ask · To what, where: Kay, little Gerda · 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 (robe, little 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 | _ | 4 Kay | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kay | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Kay | nsubj |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 mean | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kay | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kay | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kay | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Gerda | amod |
| 12 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | robe | Kay | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | little Gerda = gerda | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | little Gerda | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient |
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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