Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 94
Suddenly they stopped before a little house, which looked very miserable.
Who acts: bread, little house · What happens: stop, 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 (bread, little house), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | acl:relcl |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 miserable | advmod |
| 12 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looked | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | bread | before a little house | suddenly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | look | past | a little house | miserable 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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