Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 128
Set her down by the large bush with red berries, standing in the snow; don't stay talking, but hasten back as fast as possible.”
Who acts: you · What happens: set down, stand, not stay, talk, hasten back · To what, where: Queen, snow
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), 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 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Set | obj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Set | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 bush | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bush | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bush | amod |
| 7 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Set | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 berries | case |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 berries | amod |
| 10 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bush | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 standing | punct |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Set | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 snow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snow | det |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 stay | advmod |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Set | conj |
| 20 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stay | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hasten | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 hasten | cc |
| 23 | hasten | hasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 hasten | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 fast | advmod |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 hasten | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 possible | mark |
| 28 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fast | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Set | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | imperative | you not said here | Queen | by the large bush with red berries | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bush=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | you not said here | the snow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location | ||||
| 3 | not stay | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | you not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hasten back | infinitive | you not said here | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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