Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 53
His boots creaked, too, so loudly, but still he was not at all afraid.”
Who acts: boots, Raven · What happens: creak, not be · To what, where: all
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 (boots, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 boots | nmod:poss |
| 2 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 creaked | nsubj |
| 3 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 too | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 creaked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loudly | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 loudly | advmod |
| 8 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 creaked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 afraid | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 afraid | obl |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creaked | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creaked | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 creaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | past | Raven's boots | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Raven | all | still | afraid 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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