Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 111
“You are so clever,” said the Reindeer; “you can, I know, twist all the winds of the world together in a knot.
Who acts: You, Reindeer, Finland woman · What happens: be, say, know, twist, wind · To what, where: winds, knot, world · 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 (You, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Reindeer | det |
| 10 | Reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 twist | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 twist | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 twist | aux |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 can | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 19 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 clever | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 winds | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 winds | det |
| 22 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 twist | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 winds | nmod |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 twist | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 knot | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 knot | det |
| 29 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 twist | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Reindeer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the Finland woman = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | twist in a quote | can | You not said here | all winds of the world | a knot | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | ||
| 5 | wind in a quote | the world | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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