Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 121

They offered to let her stay at the palace, and lead a happy life; but she begged to have a little carriage with a horse in front, and for a small pair of shoes; then, she said, she would again go forth in the wide world and look for Kay.

Who acts: feet, Gerda · What happens: offer, let, stay, lead, beg, have · To what, where: Gerda, palace, happy life, little carriage, front, wide world · 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 (feet, Gerda), 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 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 let	mark
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 offered	ccomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lead	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lead	cc
12	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 life	det
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lead	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begged	nsubj
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 carriage	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 carriage	amod
24	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 horse	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carriage	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 front	case
29	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pair	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pair	cc
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 pair	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pair	det
34	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pair	amod
35	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 begged	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 shoes	case
37	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 pair	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 said	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 then	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 go	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 go	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 go	aux
46	again	again	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 said	ccomp
48	forth	forth	ADV	_	47 go	advmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 world	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 world	det
51	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 world	amod
52	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 go	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 look	cc
54	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 go	conj
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 Kay	case
56	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 look	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	feet = foot					tree rules
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here	Gerda				tree rules
3	stay	infinitive	Gerda not said here		the palace			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location
4	lead	infinitive	Gerda not said here	a happy life				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	beg speech: request	past	Gerda				for a small pair of shoes	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here	a little carriage	front		with a horse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Patient
7	say speech: assert	past	Gerda			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	go	would	Gerda		the wide world	again	forth property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location
9	look	infinitive	Gerda not said here				for Kay	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for kay=Theme

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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