Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 87
“He will, no doubt, be glad to see you--to hear what a long way you have come for his sake; to know how unhappy all at home were when he did not come back.”
Who acts: doubt, you, unhappy · What happens: be, see, hear, come, know, not come back · To what, where: you, long way · 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 (doubt, you, unhappy), 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 | _ | 9 glad | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 will | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 doubt | det |
| 6 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glad | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 glad | cop |
| 9 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 glad | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 hear | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hear | mark |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 hear | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sake | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sake | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 know | mark |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 glad | parataxis |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 unhappy | advmod |
| 30 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 come | nsubj |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 home | advmod |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 unhappy | obl |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 come | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 37 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 come | advmod |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 know | ccomp |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 come | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glad | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | no doubt | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | no doubt not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | no doubt not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | you | a long way not said here | for Kay's sake | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 5 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | not come back in a quote | past · do-support | unhappy | 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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