Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 28

“They are all mine,” said she, at the same time seizing one that was next to her by the legs and shaking it so that its wings fluttered.

Who acts: rabbits, maiden, same time, that, wings · What happens: be, say, seize, shake, flutter · To what, where: maiden, one, little · 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 (rabbits, maiden, same time, that), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 mine	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mine	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 mine	advmod
5	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mine	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 mine	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
15	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 time	acl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 seizing	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 next	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 next	cop
19	next	next	ADV	_	14 time	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 next	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 legs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 legs	det
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 time	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shaking	cc
26	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 legs	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shaking	obj
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 fluttered	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wings	nmod:poss
31	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fluttered	nsubj
32	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 shaking	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	rabbits = rabbit	maiden			all property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	maiden			time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	seize	gerund	the same time by the legs not said here	one				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	is	past	that		maiden		next property	tree rules
5	shake	gerund	maiden not said here	little				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	flutter	participle	little's wings					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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