Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 119

“'Tis true little Kay is at the Snow Queen's, and finds everything there quite to his taste; and he thinks it the very best place in the world; but the reason of that is, he has a splinter of glass in his eye, and in his heart.

Who acts: Tis, Snow Queen, Kay, reason · What happens: be, find, think, taste · To what, where: everything, taste

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 (Tis, Snow Queen, Kay, reason), 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	_	11 Queen	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Queen	nsubj
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Kay	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Kay	amod
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tis	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Queen	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 Queen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
10	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Queen	compound
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Queen	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finds	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 finds	cc
15	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Queen	acl:relcl
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 finds	obj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 everything	advmod
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 taste	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 taste	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 taste	nmod:poss
21	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finds	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 thinks	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thinks	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thinks	nsubj
25	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 finds	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thinks	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 best	advmod
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 place	amod
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thinks	ccomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 place	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 has	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 has	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 reason	det
37	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 has	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 that	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 reason	nmod
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 has	cop
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 is	punct
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 has	nsubj
43	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 finds	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 splinter	det
45	splinter	splinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 has	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 glass	case
47	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 splinter	nmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 eye	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 eye	nmod:poss
50	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 splinter	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 heart	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 heart	cc
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 heart	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 heart	nmod:poss
55	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Queen	appos
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Queen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Tis and true little Kay		at the Snow Queen	tree rules
2	find in a quote	present	the Snow Queen not said here	everything	to Kay's taste	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	Kay	taste		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	the reason of that		have property	tree rules
5	taste in a quote		Kay			nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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