Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 105

They knocked at the chimney of the Finland woman; for as to a door, she had none.

Who acts: lights, woman · What happens: knock, have · To what, where: none

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 (lights, woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 chimney	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chimney	det
5	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 woman	compound
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chimney	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 door	case
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 door	cc
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 as	fixed
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 had	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	lights = light					for a door; at the chimney of the Finland woman	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at chimney=Patient
2	have	past	woman	none					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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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