Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 139
They were the outposts of the Snow Queen.
Who acts: flakes · What happens: be · To what, where: outposts
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 (flakes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 outposts | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 outposts | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 outposts | det |
| 4 | outposts | outpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 7 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Queen | compound |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 outposts | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 outposts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | flakes = flake | the outposts | of the Snow Queen | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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