Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 80
Now you look about the hands just like my ugly old mother!”
Who acts: you · What happens: look
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 look | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hands | det |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 mother | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mother | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mother | amod |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | you | now | about the hands; like my ugly old mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about hand=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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