Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 31

And here is my dear old Bac”; and she laid hold of the horns of a reindeer, that had a bright copper ring round its neck, and was tethered to the spot.

Who acts: dear old Bac, hole, reindeer · What happens: be, lay, have, tether, hold · To what, where: hold, bright copper ring, horns · 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 (dear old Bac, hole, reindeer), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Bac	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bac	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Bac	amod
7	Bac	bac	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 here	nsubj
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Bac	punct
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laid	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	nsubj
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 here	parataxis
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 horns	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horns	det
16	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hold	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 reindeer	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 reindeer	det
19	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horns	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reindeer	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ring	det
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ring	amod
25	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ring	compound
26	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 neck	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 neck	nmod:poss
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ring	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tethered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tethered	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tethered	aux:pass
33	tethered	tether	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 laid	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 spot	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 spot	det
36	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tethered	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	my dear old Bac		here property	tree rules
2	lay in a quote	past	hole	hold of the horns of a reindeer		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
3	have in a quote	past	a reindeer	a bright copper ring	round Bac's neck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
4	tether in a quote	past · passive	hole not said here		to the spot	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: to spot=Co-Patient
5	hold in a quote			the horns of a reindeer		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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