Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 32

She then had all the ladies of the court drummed together; and when they heard her intention, all were very pleased, and said, 'We are very glad to hear it; it is the very thing we were thinking of.'

Who acts: Princess, ladies, all, We, intention · What happens: have, drum, hear, be, say, think · To what, where: ladies, intention, thing · 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 (Princess, ladies, all, We), 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	3 had	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ladies	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladies	det
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ladies	nmod
10	drummed	drum	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ladies	acl
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 drummed	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 heard	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 intention	nmod:poss
18	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pleased	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 pleased	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pleased	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 pleased	advmod
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 intention	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glad	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 glad	punct
29	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 glad	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 glad	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 glad	advmod
32	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 hear	mark
34	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 glad	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hear	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 thing	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 thing	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 thing	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 thing	det
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 thing	advmod
41	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	parataxis
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 thinking	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 thinking	aux
44	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 thing	acl:relcl
45	of	of	ADP	_	44 thinking	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 thing	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Princess	all ladies of the court	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
2	drum	participle		all ladies of the court not said here		together property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	ladies = lady	Princess's intention			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer intention=Stimulus
4	is	past	all			pleased property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	We			glad property	tree rules
7	hear	to-infinitive	We not said here	intention			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
8	is a	present	intention	the thing			tree rules
9	think speech: other	past · progressive	we	the thing not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
10	intend		Princess				nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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