Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 116
And both the Ravens nodded, and begged for a fixed appointment; for they thought of their old age, and said, “It is a good thing to have a provision for our old days.”
Who acts: Ravens, bits, appointment · What happens: nod, beg, fix, think, say, be · To what, where: good thing, provision · 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 (Ravens, bits, appointment), 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 | _ | 5 nodded | cc |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Ravens | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ravens | det |
| 4 | Ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nodded | nsubj |
| 5 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nodded | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 appointment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 appointment | det |
| 11 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 appointment | amod |
| 12 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 begged | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 thought | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nodded | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 age | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 age | nmod:poss |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thing | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 thing | punct |
| 26 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thing | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 thing | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thing | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thing | amod |
| 30 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 have | mark |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thing | acl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 provision | det |
| 34 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 days | case |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 days | nmod:poss |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 days | amod |
| 38 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 nodded | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | both Ravens | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | both Ravens not said here | for a fixed appointment | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for appointment=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | bits = bit | of bits's old age | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | bits = bit not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | appointment | a good thing | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | bits = bit not said here | a provision | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=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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