Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 72
But you must make good use of your legs; and take this little girl for me to the palace of the Snow Queen, where her playfellow is.
Who acts: you, playfellow · What happens: make, take, be, use · To what, where: good use, little girl, palace, Snow Queen, legs
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, playfellow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 make | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 use | amod |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 legs | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 use | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Queen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 23 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Queen | compound |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 palace | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 where | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 playfellow | nmod:poss |
| 28 | playfellow | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 where | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 where | cop |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | you | good use of your legs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | this little girl | the palace of the Snow Queen | for me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | present | mother's playfellow | the Snow Queen not said here | where property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | use | your legs | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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