Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 110
Then the Reindeer related his own story first, and afterwards that of little Gerda; and the Finland woman winked her eyes, but said nothing.
Who acts: Reindeer, Finland woman · What happens: relate, wink, say · To what, where: own story, eyes, nothing · 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 (Reindeer, Finland 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 related | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Reindeer | det |
| 3 | Reindeer | Reindeer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 related | nsubj |
| 4 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 related | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 related | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 that | cc |
| 11 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 12 that | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 related | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Gerda | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Gerda | amod |
| 15 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 that | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 winked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 winked | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 woman | compound |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 winked | nsubj |
| 21 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 related | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 winked | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 winked | conj |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 said | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | the Reindeer | reindeer's own story | then | that obl; first property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||
| 2 | wink | past | the Finland woman | woman's eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Finland woman not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/110/