Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 99

A swing, a bursting bubble--such is my song!”

Who acts: swing · What happens: burst, be · To what, where: song

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 (swing), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 swing	det
2	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 song	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bubble	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bubble	det
5	bursting	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bubble	amod
6	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swing	conj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 such	punct
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bubble	amod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 song	cop
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 song	nmod:poss
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 song	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 song	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	a swing and a bursting bubble	my song					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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