Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 33

Every evening I tickle his neck with my sharp knife; he is so frightened at it!” and the little girl drew forth a long knife, from a crack in the wall, and let it glide over the Reindeer's neck.

Who acts: I, little girl, knife · What happens: tickle, frighten, draw, let, glide · To what, where: neck, reindeer, long knife, crack, knife

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 (I, little girl, knife), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tickle	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tickle	nsubj
4	tickle	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neck	nmod:poss
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tickle	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 knife	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knife	nmod:poss
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knife	amod
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tickle	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 frightened	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 frightened	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	aux:pass
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 frightened	advmod
15	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tickle	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 frightened	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 frightened	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 frightened	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drew	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girl	amod
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	conj
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 drew	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 knife	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 knife	amod
28	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crack	punct
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 crack	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crack	det
32	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 wall	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wall	det
35	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crack	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tickle	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
41	over	over	ADP	_	45 neck	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Reindeer	det
43	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 neck	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 Reindeer	case
45	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 glide	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tickle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	present	I	reindeer's neck		evening	with my sharp knife	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer with knife=Instrument
2	frighten	present · passive		reindeer	neck			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	draw in a quote	past	the little girl	a long knife	a crack in the wall		forth property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from crack=Initial_Location
4	let in a quote	infinitive	the little girl = girl not said here	knife				tree rules
5	glide in a quote	infinitive	knife not said here		the Reindeer's neck			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over neck=Trajectory

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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