Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 117
And the Prince got up and let Gerda sleep in his bed, and more than this he could not do.
Who acts: Prince, Gerda, Raven · What happens: get up, let, sleep, not do · To what, where: more, Gerda, bed
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, Gerda, Raven), 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 | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 got | obj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 this | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 more | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 do | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 this | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Prince | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the Prince not said here | Gerda | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | infinitive | Gerda not said here | Raven's bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 4 | not do | could | Raven | 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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