Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 26
They had something to eat and drink; and then went into a corner, where straw and carpets were lying.
Who acts: rabbits, straw · What happens: have, eat, drink, go, lie · To what, where: something, corner
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 (rabbits, straw), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 something | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drink | cc |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eat | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 corner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 corner | det |
| 14 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lying | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 lying | advmod |
| 17 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carpets | cc |
| 19 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 straw | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lying | aux |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 corner | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | rabbits = rabbit | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | rabbits = rabbit not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | rabbits = rabbit not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | rabbits = rabbit not said here | a corner | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into corner=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | lie | past · progressive | straw and carpets | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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