Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 15
She embraced little Gerda, and said, “They shall not kill you as long as I am not displeased with you.
Who acts: maiden, eyes · What happens: embrace, say, not kill, not displease · To what, where: little Gerda, you, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (maiden, eyes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Gerda | amod |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 embraced | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 embraced | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 10 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 kill | advmod |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 kill | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 displeased | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 displeased | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 displeased | aux:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 displeased | advmod |
| 21 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 long | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 displeased | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | maiden | little Gerda | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | maiden not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not kill in a quote | shall | eyes = eye | you | long property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | not displease in a quote | present · passive | maiden | with you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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