Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 115

“Will you fly about here at liberty,” asked the Princess; “or would you like to have a fixed appointment as court ravens, with all the broken bits from the kitchen?”

Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: fly, ask, like, have, fix, break · To what, where: liberty, fixed appointment · 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 (you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 here	advmod
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fly	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 liberty	case
8	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 like	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 appointment	det
23	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 appointment	amod
24	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 ravens	case
26	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ravens	compound
27	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 appointment	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bits	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	33 bits	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 bits	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bits	det
32	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bits	amod
33	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 kitchen	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 kitchen	det
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bits	nmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	future	you		liberty; here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at liberty=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Princess				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	would	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a fixed appointment		as court ravens	tree rules
5	fix in a quote	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	break in a quote	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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