Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 11
And then she gave her mother another bite, so that she jumped, and ran round with the pain; and the Robbers laughed, and said, “Look, how she is dancing with the little one!”
Who acts: child, Robbers · What happens: give, jump, run, laugh, say, look · To what, where: bite, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Robbers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 bite | det |
| 8 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jumped | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 jumped | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 jumped | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 jumped | nsubj |
| 13 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 jumped | conj |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 pain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pain | det |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 laughed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laughed | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Robbers | det |
| 24 | Robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 laughed | nsubj |
| 25 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 laughed | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Look | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Look | punct |
| 31 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dancing | punct |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 dancing | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 dancing | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dancing | aux |
| 36 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 Look | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 one | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 one | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 one | amod |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dancing | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 Look | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | child | another bite | child's mother | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient bite=Theme | ||
| 2 | jump | past | child | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | child not said here | with the pain; round property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with pain=Material | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | the Robbers | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | the Robbers not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | dance in a quote | present · progressive | child | with the little one | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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