Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 81
My sweetheart knows a little back stair that leads to the bedchamber, and she knows where she can get the key of it.”
Who acts: sweetheart, little back stair, Princess · What happens: know, lead, get · To what, where: little back stair, key · 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 (sweetheart, little back stair, Princess), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stair | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stair | amod |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stair | compound |
| 7 | stair | stair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 leads | nsubj |
| 9 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stair | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bedchamber | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bedchamber | det |
| 12 | bedchamber | bedchamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leads | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knows | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knows | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knows | nsubj |
| 16 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | conj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 get | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 knows | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 key | det |
| 22 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 key | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | My sweetheart | a little back stair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stair=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lead | present | a little back stair | to the bedchamber | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to bedchamber=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | present | Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | can | Princess | the key of sweetheart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer key=Stimulus |
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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