Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 65
“I was born and bred there--there I leapt about on the fields of snow.”
Who acts: animal · What happens: bear, breed, leapt · To what, where: animal, fields
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 (animal), 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 born | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bred | cc |
| 6 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 born | conj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 bred | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 leapt | punct |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 leapt | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leapt | nsubj |
| 11 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 leapt | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 fields | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fields | det |
| 15 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leapt | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 snow | case |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fields | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past · passive | the animal = animal | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | breed in a quote | participle | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leapt in a quote | present | the animal = animal | the fields of snow; there | about 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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