Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 21

Kay made all sorts of figures, the most complicated, for it was an ice-puzzle for the understanding.

Who acts: Kay, ice · What happens: make, be, sort · To what, where: sorts, figures

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), 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	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sorts	det
4	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 figures	case
6	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sorts	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 complicated	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 complicated	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 complicated	advmod
10	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 figures	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 puzzle	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	18 puzzle	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 puzzle	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 puzzle	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 puzzle	det
16	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 puzzle	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 ice	punct
18	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 complicated	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 understanding	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 understanding	det
21	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 puzzle	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Kay	all sorts of figures		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Product
2	is	past	ice		for a ice puzzle; for the understanding	tree rules
3	sort			figures		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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