Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 29

And then away she flew, and Kay sat quite alone in the empty halls of ice that were miles long, and looked at the blocks of ice, and thought and thought till his skull was almost cracked.

Who acts: Etna, Kay, ice · What happens: fly, sit, be, look, think, crack · To what, where: empty halls, skull

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 (Etna, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 flew	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sat	cc
8	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 alone	advmod
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 halls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 halls	det
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 halls	amod
15	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 ice	case
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 halls	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 long	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 long	cop
20	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 long	obl:unmarked
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ice	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 blocks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blocks	det
27	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 looked	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 ice	case
29	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blocks	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thought	cc
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thought	cc
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thought	conj
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 cracked	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 skull	nmod:poss
37	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cracked	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 cracked	aux:pass
39	almost	almost	ADV	_	40 cracked	advmod
40	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 thought	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Etna			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	Kay		the empty halls of ice	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
3	is	past	ice			miles obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
4	look	past	Etna not said here			at the blocks of ice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at block=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	Etna not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	Etna not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	crack	past · passive		Kay's skull		almost property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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