Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 50
“No, that was certainly his sledge,” said Gerda; “for when he went away he took his sledge with him.”
Who acts: that, sledge, Kay · What happens: be, say, go away, take · To what, where: sledge · 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 (that, sledge, 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 sledge | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sledge | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sledge | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sledge | cop |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 sledge | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sledge | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sledge | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 went | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | advcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | that | Kay's sledge | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kay's sledge | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | past | Kay | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | past | Kay | Kay's sledge | with sledge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=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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