Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 18

In the middle of this lake sat the Snow Queen when she was at home; and then she said she was sitting in the Mirror of Understanding, and that this was the only one and the best thing in the world.

Who acts: Mirth, this · What happens: sit, be, say · To what, where: Snow Queen, middle, home, Mirror, only one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mirth, this), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
9	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Queen	compound
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 home	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 home	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 home	cop
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 said	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sitting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	aux
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 Mirror	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mirror	det
26	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Understanding	case
28	Understanding	Understanding	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Mirror	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 one	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 one	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 one	mark
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 one	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 one	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 one	det
35	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 one	amod
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thing	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 thing	det
39	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 thing	amod
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 one	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 world	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 world	det
43	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thing	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past		the Snow Queen	the middle of this lake		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in middle=Location
2	is	past	Mirth		home		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Mirth			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	Mirth		the Mirror of Understanding		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mirror=Location
5	is a	past	this	the only one and the best thing in the world			tree rules

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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