Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 7

She had been bitten in the ear by her own little daughter, who hung at her back; and who was so wild and unmanageable, that it was quite amusing to see her.

Who acts: own little daughter, back · What happens: bite, hang, be, see · To what, where: woman, ear, back

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 (own little daughter, back), 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	4 bitten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bitten	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bitten	aux:pass
4	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bitten	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 daughter	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 daughter	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 daughter	amod
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bitten	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hung	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 hung	nsubj
15	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 daughter	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hung	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 wild	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wild	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 wild	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wild	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 wild	advmod
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bitten	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 unmanageable	cc
26	unmanageable	unmanageable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wild	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 amusing	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 amusing	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 amusing	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 amusing	cop
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 amusing	advmod
32	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wild	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 amusing	advcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bitten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bite	past · perfect · passive	woman's own little daughter	woman	the ear		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Patient in ear=Location
2	hang	past	woman's own little daughter		woman's back		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location
3	is	past				wild property	tree rules
4	be						tree rules
5	is	past	back			amusing property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	back not said here	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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