Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 82

“I can't bear to see you fretting,” said the little robber maiden.

Who acts: little robber maiden, you · What happens: not bear, see, fret, say · To what, where: you · 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 (little robber maiden, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bear	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bear	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bear	advmod
5	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bear	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	fretting	fret	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 see	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maiden	amod
15	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 maiden	compound
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not bear in a quote	can	the little robber maiden = maiden		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the little robber maiden = maiden not said here	you	tree rules
3	fret in a quote	gerund	you not said here		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	the little robber maiden		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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