Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 110
And out of the white lily leaves the Princess peeped, too, and asked what was the matter.
Who acts: white lily, Princess · What happens: leave, peep, ask, be · To what, where: matter · 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 (white lily, Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 leaves | cc |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 lily | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lily | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lily | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lily | amod |
| 6 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | nsubj |
| 7 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 peeped | nsubj |
| 10 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaves | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 too | punct |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 peeped | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 peeped | parataxis |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 matter | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 matter | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | the white lily | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | peep | past | the Princess | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | 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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