Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 57
“And on he went boldly up to the Princess, who was sitting on a pearl as large as a spinning-wheel.
Who acts: Raven, Princess · What happens: go, sit · To what, where: pearl
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 (Raven, Princess), 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 | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sitting | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sitting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | aux |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Princess | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 pearl | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pearl | det |
| 17 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 large | advmod |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sitting | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 wheel | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wheel | det |
| 22 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wheel | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 spinning | punct |
| 24 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 large | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Raven | up the Princess; boldly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up princess=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | past · progressive | the Princess | a pearl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pearl=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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