Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 86

She called to mind his intelligent eyes, and his long hair, so vividly, she could quite see him as he used to laugh when they were sitting under the roses at home.

Who acts: Gerda, Kay, eyes · What happens: call, mind, see, use, laugh, sit · To what, where: long hair, intelligent eyes, Kay, roses · 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 (Gerda, Kay, eyes), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 mind	mark
4	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mind	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hair	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hair	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vividly	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 vividly	advmod
15	vividly	vividly	ADV	_	2 called	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 used	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 used	nsubj
24	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 laugh	mark
26	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 used	xcomp
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 sitting	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sitting	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sitting	aux
30	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 laugh	advcl
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 roses	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roses	det
33	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sitting	obl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 home	case
35	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	Gerda	Kay's long hair		vividly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mind	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here	Kay's intelligent eyes			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	see	could	Gerda	Kay			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	use	past	Kay				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	laugh	to-infinitive	Kay not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	past · progressive	eyes = eye		the roses	at home	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rose=Location

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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