Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 20

He was dragging along some pointed flat pieces of ice, which he laid together in all possible ways, for he wanted to make something with them; just as we have little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with, called the Chinese Puzzle.

Who acts: Kay, ice, we, little flat pieces · What happens: drag, point, lay, want, make, have · To what, where: pointed flat pieces, possible ways, something, little flat pieces, geometrical figures, Chinese Puzzle · 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 (Kay, ice, we, little flat pieces), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dragging	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dragging	aux
3	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	8 pieces	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 pieces	det
6	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pieces	amod
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pieces	amod
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dragging	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pieces	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 laid	nsubj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laid	nsubj
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ice	conj
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 laid	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 ways	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 ways	det
18	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ways	amod
19	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wanted	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 wanted	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wanted	nsubj
23	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dragging	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wanted	xcomp
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 make	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
30	just	just	ADV	_	33 have	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 have	mark
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wanted	parataxis
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pieces	amod
35	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pieces	amod
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wood	case
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pieces	nmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 make	mark
40	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 pieces	acl
41	geometrical	geometrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 figures	amod
42	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 make	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	40 make	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 called	punct
45	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 pieces	acl:relcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Puzzle	det
47	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Puzzle	amod
48	Puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 called	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dragging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past · progressive	Kay		some pointed flat pieces of ice		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along piece=Location
2	point	participle					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	ice		all possible ways	together property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in way=Destination
4	want	past	Kay				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	something		with pieces = piece	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product
6	have	present	we	little flat pieces of wood			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
7	make	to-infinitive	we not said here	geometrical figures			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product
8	call	participle	little flat pieces of wood not said here	the Chinese Puzzle			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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