Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 113

They praised the Ravens very much, and told them they were not at all angry with them, but they were not to do so again.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: praise, tell, not be, not do · To what, where: Ravens, Prince, all · 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 (Prince), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ravens	det
4	Ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 praised	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	2 praised	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 praised	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 angry	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 angry	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 angry	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 angry	obl
16	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 told	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 angry	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 do	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 do	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 praised	advcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 again	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 do	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 praised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	Prince	the Ravens					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past			Prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	not is	past	Prince			all		with leaves = leaf; angry property	tree rules
4	not do	past	Prince				again		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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