Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 28
“I will just give them a coating of white, for that is as it ought to be; besides, it is good for the oranges and the grapes.”
Who acts: Snow Queen, coating · What happens: give, be · To what, where: coating, besides
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, coating), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coating | det |
| 8 | coating | coating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 white | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coating | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ought | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ought | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 ought | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ought | cop |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ought | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ought | nsubj |
| 17 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 be | mark |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ought | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 21 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 good | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 good | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 good | cop |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 give | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 oranges | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 oranges | det |
| 28 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 good | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grapes | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 grapes | det |
| 31 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 oranges | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the Snow Queen = queen | a coating of white | besides | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | the Snow Queen = queen not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | coating | for the oranges and the grapes; good property | 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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