Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 77
“She sends you her compliments; and here is a roll for you.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: send, be, compliment · To what, where: compliments, you, roll
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 (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 | _ | 3 sends | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | obj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 compliments | nmod:poss |
| 6 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sends | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 roll | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 roll | cc |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 roll | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 roll | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 roll | det |
| 12 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 roll | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present | Gerda | Gerda's compliments | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination compliment=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a roll | here | for you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | compliment in a quote | Gerda | nom compliment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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