Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 26

“I must have a look down into the black caldrons.”

Who acts: Snow Queen · What happens: have down · To what, where: look, black caldrons

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 (Snow Queen), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 look	det
6	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 caldrons	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 caldrons	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 caldrons	amod
11	caldrons	caldron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have down in a quote	must	the Snow Queen = queen	a look		the black caldrons		down property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=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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