Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 109
The Prince was only like him about the neck; but he was young and handsome.
Who acts: Prince, Kay · What happens: be
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 (Prince, Kay), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 neck | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 neck | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 neck | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 only | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 neck | det |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 young | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 young | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 neck | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 handsome | cc |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 young | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 neck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | about the neck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Kay | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Kay not said here | 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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