Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 125
She must not hear of her power from us; that power lies in her heart, because she is a sweet and innocent child!
Who acts: Queen, power · What happens: not hear, lie, be · To what, where: heart, sweet child
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 (Queen, power), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:1280): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hear | advmod |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 power | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lies | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 power | det |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | nsubj |
| 13 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 child | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 child | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 child | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 child | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 child | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 innocent | cc |
| 24 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sweet | conj |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | advcl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | must | Queen | of Queen's power; from us | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent of power=Theme from we=Source | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | that power | Queen's heart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Queen | a sweet child | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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