Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 59
It was hardly possible to look at the gentleman's gentleman, so very haughtily did he stand in the doorway.”
Who acts: It, Raven · What happens: be, look, stand · To what, where: doorway
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 (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 possible | csubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 gentleman | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gentleman | det |
| 9 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gentleman | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 gentleman | case |
| 11 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stand | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 stand | advmod |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 haughtily | advmod |
| 15 | haughtily | haughtily | ADV | _ | 18 stand | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stand | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 look | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 doorway | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 doorway | det |
| 21 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | hardly, possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | at the gentleman's gentleman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gentleman=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · do-support | Raven | the doorway | haughtily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=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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