Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 8

“You naughty child!” said the mother: and now she had not time to kill Gerda.

Who acts: You, naughty child, child · What happens: child, say, have, kill · To what, where: mother, Gerda · 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 (You, naughty child, child), 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 child	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 child	nsubj
3	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 had	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 time	advmod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 kill	mark
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 time	acl
19	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 kill	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	child in a quote		You			tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	naughty child	the mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	have	past	child		now; time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	kill	to-infinitive	child not said here	Gerda		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme

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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