Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 29
“Kiss it,” cried the little girl, and flung the pigeon in Gerda's face.
Who acts: little girl · What happens: kiss, cry, fling · To what, where: little, pigeon, face · 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 (little girl), 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 | _ | 2 Kiss | punct |
| 2 | Kiss | kiss | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Kiss | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kiss | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kiss | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 girl | amod |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flung | cc |
| 12 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pigeon | det |
| 14 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flung | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 16 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Gerda | case |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flung | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss in a quote | infinitive | little | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the little girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fling | past | the little girl not said here | the pigeon | Gerda's face | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme in face=Destination |
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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