Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 55
“I know he had on new boots; I have heard them creaking in grandmama's room.”
Who acts: Kay, boots · What happens: know, have, hear, creak · To what, where: new boots, boots, room · 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, boots), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 boots | case |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boots | amod |
| 8 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 know | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | creaking | creak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 heard | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 16 | grandmama | grandmama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 room | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 grandmama | case |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 creaking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Kay | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Kay | new boots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Kay | boots = boot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | creak in a quote | gerund | boots = boot not said here | grandmama's room | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
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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