Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 120
These must be got out first; otherwise he will never go back to mankind, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him.”
Who acts: Kay, Snow Queen · What happens: get out, not go back, retain · To what, where: These, power
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 (Kay, Snow Queen), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | aux:pass |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mankind | case |
| 15 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 retain | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 retain | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 19 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Queen | compound |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 retain | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 retain | aux |
| 22 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 power | nmod:poss |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 retain | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 retain | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | must · passive | These | first, out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go back | future | Kay | to mankind result; otherwise property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mankind=Result | ||||
| 3 | retain | future | the Snow Queen | Queen's power | over Kay | tree rules |
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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