Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 73
“Wait for me here on these steps,” said the Raven.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: wait, say · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Wait | obl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Wait | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 steps | det |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Wait | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Raven | det |
| 13 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | here | for the Raven = raven; on this steps | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on step=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Raven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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