Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 97

“They come to fetch the thoughts of the high personages to the chase; 'tis well, for now you can observe them in bed all the better.

Who acts: dreams, you · What happens: come, fetch, observe, think · To what, where: thoughts, dreams, bed, high personages

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 (dreams, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thoughts	det
7	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fetch	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 personages	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 personages	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 personages	amod
11	personages	personage	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thoughts	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 chase	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chase	det
14	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tis	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 tis	punct
17	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	conj
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 come	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 observe	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 observe	mark
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 observe	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 observe	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 observe	aux
24	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 observe	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 bed	case
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 observe	obl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 better	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 better	det
30	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 observe	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	dreams = dream				well property	tree rules
2	fetch in a quote	to-infinitive	dreams = dream not said here	the thoughts of the high personages			to the chase	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
3	observe in a quote	can	you	dreams = dream	bed	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	think in a quote			the high personages				nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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