Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 124
Don't you see how men and animals are forced to serve her; how well she gets through the world barefooted?
Who acts: you, men, Queen · What happens: do, not see, force, serve, get · To what, where: men, Queen, 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, men, 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | advcl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 forced | advmod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 animals | cc |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 men | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 forced | aux:pass |
| 10 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 see | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 serve | mark |
| 12 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forced | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 serve | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gets | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 well | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 gets | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gets | nsubj |
| 18 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | advcl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gets | obl |
| 22 | barefooted | barefooted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gets | xcomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | force | present · passive | men and animals | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | serve | to-infinitive | men and animals not said here | Queen | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | get | present | Queen | the world | barefooted, well property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through world=Destination |
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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