Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 35
“Do you intend to keep your knife while you sleep?” asked Gerda; looking at it rather fearfully.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: intend, keep, sleep, ask, look · To what, where: knife, Gerda · 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 (Gerda), 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 | _ | 4 intend | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 intend | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 intend | nsubj |
| 4 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intend | xcomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sleep | nsubj |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 intend | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 intend | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looking | obl |
| 20 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 21 fearfully | advmod |
| 21 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 17 looking | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend in a quote | present · do-support | Gerda | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Gerda not said here | your knife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | present | Gerda | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Gerda | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look | gerund | at knife; fearfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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