Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 69
She now jumped out of bed, flew to her mother; with her arms round her neck, and pulling her by the beard, said, “Good morrow, my own sweet nanny-goat of a mother.”
Who acts: maiden, pulling · What happens: jump out, fly, pull, say · To what, where: bed, maiden · 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 (maiden, pulling), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 arms | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 neck | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arms | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 21 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 said | csubj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pulling | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 beard | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beard | det |
| 25 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulling | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pulling | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 morrow | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 morrow | punct |
| 30 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 morrow | amod |
| 31 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 goat | punct |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 goat | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 goat | amod |
| 35 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 goat | amod |
| 36 | nanny | nanny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 goat | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 nanny | punct |
| 38 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 morrow | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 mother | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 mother | det |
| 41 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 goat | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump out | past | maiden | bed | now | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fly | past | maiden not said here | to maiden's mother result; with maiden's arms round maiden's neck | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result | ||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | maiden | by the beard | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | pulling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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