Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 10
“She shall give me her muff, and her pretty frock; she shall sleep in my bed!”
Who acts: child · What happens: give, sleep · To what, where: muff, little robber child, bed
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 muff | nmod:poss |
| 7 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frock | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 frock | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 frock | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 frock | amod |
| 12 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sleep | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleep | aux |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | shall | child | child's muff | the little robber child = child | child's pretty frock obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient muff=Theme | ||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | shall | child | my bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=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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