Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 108

She called him quite loud by name, held the lamp towards him--the dreams rushed back again into the chamber--he awoke, turned his head, and--it was not little Kay!

Who acts: Gerda, dreams, Kay, head · What happens: call, hold, rush back, awake, turn, be · To what, where: Kay, lamp, chamber, head, little Kay · 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 (Gerda, dreams, Kay, head), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADV	_	2 called	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 name	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lamp	det
11	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 rushed	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dreams	det
16	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rushed	nsubj
17	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 rushed	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 rushed	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 chamber	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chamber	det
22	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rushed	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 awoke	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 awoke	nsubj
25	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turned	punct
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 awoke	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Kay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Kay	cc
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 Kay	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 Kay	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 Kay	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 little	advmod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Kay	amod
37	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Gerda		Kay		by name; loud property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	hold	past	Gerda not said here	the lamp			towards Kay	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
3	rush back	past	the dreams			again	into the chamber result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into chamber=Result
4	awake	past	Kay					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	turn	past	Kay not said here	Kay's head				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
6	is a	past	head	little Kay				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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