Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 41
“They grew hungry and thirsty; but from the palace they got nothing whatever, not even a glass of water.
Who acts: People · What happens: grow, get · To what, where: nothing, palace
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 (People), 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 | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thirsty | cc |
| 6 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hungry | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 got | obj |
| 15 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 nothing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glass | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 glass | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 glass | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 glass | det |
| 20 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 glass | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | past | People | hungry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | People | nothing | the palace | a glass of water obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme from palace=Source |
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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