Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 84
It was just as if she had been about to do something wrong; and yet she only wanted to know if little Kay was there.
Who acts: longing, Gerda, little Kay · What happens: be, want, know
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 (longing, Gerda, little Kay), 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 | 11 do | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 as | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 do | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 do | case |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 something | amod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wanted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wanted | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 wanted | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wanted | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 wanted | advmod |
| 19 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wanted | xcomp |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 there | mark |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Kay | amod |
| 24 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 there | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 there | cop |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 know | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | longing | do property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Gerda | yet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Gerda not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | little Kay | there property | tree rules |
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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