Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 85

The bread and the meat were fastened to the Reindeer's back; the little maiden opened the door, called in all the dogs, and then with her knife cut the rope that fastened the animal, and said to him, “Now, off with you; but take good care of the little girl!”

Who acts: little maiden, rope, little girl · What happens: fasten, open, call, cut, say, take · To what, where: bread, door, rope, animal, reindeer, good care · 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 maiden, rope, little girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fastened	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 meat	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meat	det
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bread	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fastened	aux:pass
7	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 back	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Reindeer	det
10	Reindeer	Reindeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 back	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Reindeer	case
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fastened	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 opened	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maiden	amod
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	nsubj
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fastened	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 door	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 dogs	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 dogs	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dogs	det
25	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 called	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cut	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cut	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 cut	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 knife	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 knife	nmod:poss
31	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obl
32	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 opened	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rope	det
34	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 fastened	nsubj
36	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 rope	acl:relcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 animal	det
38	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fastened	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 said	cc
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 opened	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 said	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 you	punct
45	“	"	PUNCT	_	50 you	punct
46	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 you	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 you	punct
48	off	off	ADV	_	50 you	advmod
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 you	case
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 said	ccomp
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 take	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 take	cc
53	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fastened	parataxis
54	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 care	amod
55	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 girl	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 girl	det
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 girl	amod
59	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 care	nmod
60	!	!	PUNCT	_	53 take	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · passive		the bread and the meat			to the Reindeer's back	tree rules
2	open	past	the little maiden	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	call	participle		the door not said here			in all dogs	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut	past	the little maiden not said here	the rope		then	with maiden's knife	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient with knife=Instrument
5	fasten	past	the rope	the animal				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
6	say speech: assert	past	the little maiden not said here		reindeer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	take in a quote	present		good care of the little girl				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
8	care in a quote		the little girl					nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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