Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 60
“Do you choose to be quiet?” said the robber maiden.
Who acts: you, robber maiden · What happens: choose, be, say · 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 (you, robber maiden), 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 choose | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 quiet | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 quiet | cop |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 choose | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 12 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 maiden | compound |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the robber maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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