Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 132
I have not brought my gloves!” cried little Gerda.
Who acts: I, characters · What happens: not bring, cry · To what, where: gloves, little Gerda
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 (I, characters), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 brought | advmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Gerda | amod |
| 11 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | present · perfect | I | my gloves | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent glove=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | characters = character not said here | little Gerda | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Topic |
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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