Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 109

She read it three times: she then knew it by heart; so she put the fish into the cupboard--for it might very well be eaten, and she never threw anything away.

Who acts: woman · What happens: read, know, put, eat, not throw away · To what, where: piece, fish, cupboard, anything

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 (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 read	obj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 read	obl:unmarked
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 knew	advmod
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 read	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 heart	case
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 read	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fish	det
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 cupboard	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cupboard	det
21	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 eaten	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 eaten	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eaten	nsubj:pass
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eaten	aux
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 eaten	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 eaten	aux:pass
29	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 put	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 threw	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 threw	cc
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 threw	nsubj
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 threw	advmod
34	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 read	parataxis
35	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 threw	obj
36	away	away	ADV	_	34 threw	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	woman	piece			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	know	past	woman	piece			then	by heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	put	past	woman		the fish	the cupboard			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Goal
4	eat	might · passive		piece				well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	not throw away	past	woman	anything				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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