Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 68
However, towards morning she takes a draught out of the large flask, and then she sleeps a little: then I will do something for you.”
Who acts: maiden, I · What happens: take, sleep, do · To what, where: draught, large flask, little, something
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 (maiden, I), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 takes | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 takes | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 takes | nsubj |
| 6 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 draught | det |
| 8 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 takes | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 flask | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flask | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flask | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flask | amod |
| 13 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 takes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sleeps | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sleeps | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sleeps | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sleeps | nsubj |
| 18 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 takes | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sleeps | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 do | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 takes | advcl |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 do | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 takes | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | maiden | a draught | the large flask | morning | however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent draught=Theme out flask=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | sleep | present | maiden | a little | then | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | do | future | I | something | then | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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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