Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 83
“This is just the time when you ought to look pleased.
Who acts: This, you · What happens: be, look · To what, where: time
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 (This, 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 | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 9 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | acl |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 look | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | ought | you | pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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