Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 42

Some of the cleverest, it is true, had taken bread and butter with them: but none shared it with his neighbor, for each thought, 'Let him look hungry, and then the Princess won't have him.'”

Who acts: glass, cleverest, thought, Raven, Princess · What happens: be, take, share, let, look, not have · To what, where: bread, glass, Raven

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 (glass, cleverest, thought, Raven), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 cleverest	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 cleverest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cleverest	det
4	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 shared	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cleverest	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 true	advcl
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 butter	cc
14	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bread	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 butter	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 shared	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 shared	cc
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 shared	nsubj
20	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shared	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 neighbor	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 neighbor	nmod:poss
24	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shared	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 thought	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 thought	det
28	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shared	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Let	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 Let	punct
31	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thought	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 Let	obj
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 Let	xcomp
34	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 look	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 have	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 have	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 have	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Princess	det
39	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 have	nsubj
40	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 have	aux
41	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 have	advmod
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 Let	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 have	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	glass			true property	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect	glass not said here	bread and butter with bread			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
3	share	past	the cleverest	glass		with Raven's neighbor	tree rules
4	let	infinitive	each thought not said here	Raven			tree rules
5	look	infinitive	Raven not said here			hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	not have	future	the Princess	Raven	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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