Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 46

It was on the third day when a little personage without horse or equipage, came marching right boldly up to the palace; his eyes shone like yours, he had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very shabby.”

Who acts: cleverest, little personage, eyes, personage, clothes · What happens: be, come, march, shine, have · To what, where: palace, beautiful long hair

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 (cleverest, little personage, eyes, personage), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 personage	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 personage	amod
10	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 horse	case
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 personage	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 equipage	cc
14	equipage	equipage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 personage	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 personage	punct
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	acl:relcl
17	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 came	xcomp
18	right	right	ADV	_	19 boldly	advmod
19	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 marching	advmod
20	up	up	ADP	_	23 palace	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 marching	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 shone	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shone	nsubj
27	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 day	parataxis
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 yours	case
29	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shone	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shone	conj
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hair	amod
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hair	amod
35	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 shabby	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 shabby	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 clothes	nmod:poss
39	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	42 shabby	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 shabby	cop
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 shabby	advmod
42	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shone	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 shabby	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cleverest = clever			on the third day		tree rules
2	come	past	a little personage without horse or equipage					tree rules
3	march	gerund	a little personage without horse or equipage not said here		the palace		boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up palace=Trajectory
4	shine	past	personage's eyes				like yours	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	personage	beautiful long hair				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
6	is	past	personage's clothes				shabby property	tree rules

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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