Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 127
Two miles hence the garden of the Snow Queen begins; thither you may carry the little girl.
Who acts: garden, you · What happens: begin, carry · To what, where: little girl
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 (garden, you), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 miles | nummod |
| 2 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hence | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 10 begins | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begins | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | 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 garden | nmod |
| 10 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 12 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 15 carry | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 carry | aux |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 begins | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the garden of the Snow Queen | hence property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | carry | may | you | the little girl | thither property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
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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