Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 100
That's not worth talking about,” said the Raven of the woods.
Who acts: That, Raven · What happens: not be, talk about, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Raven), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 worth | advmod |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 worth | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 talking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Raven | det |
| 11 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woods | det |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Raven | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | That | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk about | gerund | That not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Raven of the woods | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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