Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 15

He could not say it better; but he felt a sympathy for the little girl, and asked her where she was going all alone.

Who acts: Raven, girl · What happens: not say, feel, ask, go · To what, where: head, sympathy, girl · 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 (Raven, girl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 say	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 felt	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sympathy	det
12	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 girl	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	iobj
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 going	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 asked	advcl
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 alone	advmod
26	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	could	Raven	head		well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	feel	past	Raven	a sympathy		for the little girl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sympathy=Location for girl=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Raven not said here		girl		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	go	past · progressive	girl			alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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