Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 98
But let me find, when you enjoy honor and distinction, that you possess a grateful heart.”
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, find, enjoy, possess · To what, where: me, honor, grateful heart
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 (you, me), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 enjoy | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 enjoy | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 enjoy | nsubj |
| 8 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | ccomp |
| 9 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enjoy | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 distinction | cc |
| 11 | distinction | distinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 honor | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 possess | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 possess | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 possess | nsubj |
| 15 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 enjoy | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 heart | det |
| 17 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heart | amod |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 possess | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | me not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | present | you | honor and distinction | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honor=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | possess | present | you | a grateful heart | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot heart=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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