Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 63
Do you know where Lapland lies!” she asked of the Reindeer.
Who acts: you, Lapland · What happens: know, lie, ask · 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, Lapland), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 lies | advmod |
| 5 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lies | nsubj |
| 6 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Reindeer | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Reindeer | det |
| 13 | Reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | Lapland | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Lapland | of the Reindeer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of reindeer=Recipient |
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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