Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 30

She was lately, it is said, sitting on her throne--which is not very amusing after all--when she began humming an old tune, and it was just, 'Oh, why should I not be married?' '

Who acts: throne, Princess · What happens: say, sit, not be, begin, hum, not marry · To what, where: Princess, throne, old tune, kingdom · 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 (throne, Princess), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux:pass
3	lately	lately	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lately	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux:pass
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 throne	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 throne	nmod:poss
12	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 amusing	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 amusing	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 amusing	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 amusing	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 amusing	advmod
18	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 throne	acl:relcl
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 amusing	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 began	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	conj
25	humming	hum	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 began	xcomp
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tune	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tune	amod
28	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 humming	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 married	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 married	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 married	aux:pass
33	just	just	ADV	_	43 married	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct
36	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	43 married	discourse
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct
38	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	43 married	advmod
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 married	aux
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 married	nsubj:pass
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 married	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 married	aux:pass
43	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	ccomp
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · passive		Princess			lately property	tree rules
2	sit	gerund			Princess's throne			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
3	not is	present	Princess's throne			after all	amusing property	tree rules
4	begin	past	Princess					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hum	gerund	Princess not said here	a old tune				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic
6	not marry	should · past · passive		kingdom				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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