Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 126
If she cannot get to the Snow Queen by herself, and rid little Kay of the glass, we cannot help her.
Who acts: Queen, we · What happens: not get, not help · To what, where: rid little Kay, Queen
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, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 help | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 8 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Queen | compound |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Kay | cc |
| 14 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Kay | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Kay | amod |
| 16 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 glass | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 glass | det |
| 19 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Kay | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 help | advmod |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get a condition, not said to happen | can | Queen | rid little Kay of the glass | to the Snow Queen result; by Queen | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to queen=Result | |||
| 2 | not help | can | we | Queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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