Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 43
“But Kay--little Kay,” said Gerda, “when did he come?
Who acts: Kay · What happens: say, come · 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 (Kay), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 Kay | cc |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kay | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Kay | amod |
| 6 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kay | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kay | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kay | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 come | advmod |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Kay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past · do-support | Kay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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