Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 62
“Were I not a Raven, I should have taken the Princess myself, although I am promised.
Who acts: little Gerda · What happens: not raven, take, promise · To what, where: Raven, little Gerda
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 (little Gerda), 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 taken | punct |
| 2 | Were | were | INTJ | _ | 6 Raven | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Raven | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Raven | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Raven | det |
| 6 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Raven | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 14 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 promised | punct |
| 16 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 promised | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 promised | aux:pass |
| 19 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 taken | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not raven in a quote | little Gerda = gerda | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | take in a quote | should · perfect · passive | a Raven | myself obl:unmarked | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme princess=Destination | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · passive | little Gerda = gerda | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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