Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 80
It is not possible for you to enter the palace, for you are barefooted: the guards in silver, and the lackeys in gold, would not allow it; but do not cry, you shall come in still.
Who acts: doubt, you · What happens: not be, enter, be, not allow, not cry, come in · To what, where: palace, doubt
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 (doubt, you), 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 enter | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 enter | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 enter | mark |
| 8 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 possible | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enter | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 barefooted | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 barefooted | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 barefooted | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 barefooted | cop |
| 15 | barefooted | barefooted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 enter | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 guards | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 guards | det |
| 18 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 barefooted | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 silver | case |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guards | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lackeys | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lackeys | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lackeys | det |
| 24 | lackeys | lackey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 guards | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lackeys | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 allow | punct |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 allow | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 allow | advmod |
| 30 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 guards | parataxis |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 allow | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 cry | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 cry | cc |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 36 cry | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 cry | advmod |
| 36 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 come | punct |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 come | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 come | aux |
| 40 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 cry | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADV | _ | 40 come | advmod |
| 42 | still | still | ADV | _ | 40 come | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | doubt | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | you | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | barefooted property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not allow | would | doubt | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | not cry speech: express | infinitive · do-support | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | come in | shall | you | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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