Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 5
And then she drew out a knife, the blade of which shone so that it was quite dreadful to behold.
Who acts: robber, blade, knife · What happens: draw out, shine, be · To what, where: 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 (robber, blade, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drew | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drew | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 drew | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knife | det |
| 7 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blade | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blade | det |
| 10 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knife | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blade | acl:relcl |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 dreadful | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dreadful | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dreadful | cop |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 dreadful | advmod |
| 19 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shone | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 behold | case |
| 21 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 19 dreadful | discourse |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | robber | a knife | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | |||
| 2 | shine | past | the blade | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | knife | dreadful property | tree rules |
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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