Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 100
You have more than a hundred miles to go before you get to Finland; there the Snow Queen has her country-house, and burns blue lights every evening.
Who acts: You, Snow Queen · What happens: have, go, get, burn · To what, where: hundred miles, Finland, country house, blue lights
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 (You, Snow Queen), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 miles | nummod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 miles | acl |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Finland | case |
| 14 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 has | expl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 18 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Queen | compound |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 country | punct |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 burns | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 burns | cc |
| 27 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 has | conj |
| 28 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lights | amod |
| 29 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 burns | obj |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 evening | det |
| 31 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burns | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | hundred miles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | You not said here | hundred miles not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | present | you | Finland | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to finland=Result | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the Snow Queen | Queen's country house | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | |||
| 5 | burn | present | the Snow Queen not said here | blue lights | evening | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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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