Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 35
“Yes, Yes,” said the Raven, “you may believe it; it is as true as I am sitting here.
Who acts: Raven, you, palace · What happens: say, believe, be, sit · To what, where: palace · 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, you, palace), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Yes | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Yes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Raven | det |
| 9 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | aux |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 believe | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 true | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 true | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 true | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 true | advmod |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 sitting | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 sitting | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sitting | aux |
| 24 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 true | advcl |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 sitting | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Raven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | may | you | palace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | palace | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | the Raven = raven | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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