Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 105

One was white, and in this lay the Princess; the other was red, and it was here that Gerda was to look for little Kay.

Who acts: One, other, ceiling, Gerda · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: Princess, this

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 (One, other, ceiling, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 white	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 white	cop
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lay	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 lay	obl
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 white	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 red	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 red	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 red	cop
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 here	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 here	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 here	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 red	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 look	mark
22	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 look	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 look	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 look	mark
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 here	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 Kay	case
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Kay	amod
28	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	One			white property	tree rules
2	lie	past		the Princess	this		tree rules
3	is	past	the other			red property	tree rules
4	is	past	ceiling			here property	tree rules
5	is	past	Gerda			for little Kay; look property	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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