Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 18
“What, do you really think so?” cried the little girl; and she nearly squeezed the Raven to death, so much did she kiss him.
Who acts: you, little girl, girl · What happens: think, cry, squeeze, kiss · To what, where: Raven, death · 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, little girl, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 think | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 squeezed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 squeezed | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 squeezed | nsubj |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 19 squeezed | advmod |
| 19 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Raven | det |
| 21 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 squeezed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 squeezed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kiss | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 kiss | advmod |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 kiss | aux |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kiss | nsubj |
| 29 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 squeezed | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kiss | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the little girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | squeeze | past | girl | the Raven | death | nearly property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent raven=Theme to death=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | kiss | past · do-support | girl | Raven | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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