Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 46

She blew upon us young ones; and all died except we two.

Who acts: hen · What happens: blow, die · To what, where: young ones

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 (hen), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 blew	obl
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blew	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 died	cc
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 died	advmod
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	conj
11	except	except	ADP	_	13 two	case
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 two	nsubj
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 died	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	hen	young ones				upon us	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	die	past	hen not said here					except two; all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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