Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 33

There she beheld Kay: she recognised him, flew to embrace him, and cried out, her arms firmly holding him the while, “Kay, sweet little Kay!

Who acts: little maiden · What happens: behold, recognise, fly, embrace, cry out, hold · To what, where: Kay, arms

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 (little maiden), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 beheld	expl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 recognised	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 recognised	nsubj
7	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beheld	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 recognised	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flew	punct
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 recognised	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 embrace	mark
12	embrace	embrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 flew	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 embrace	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beheld	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 cried	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arms	punct
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cried	obl
21	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	20 arms	advmod
22	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cried	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 holding	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 while	det
25	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 holding	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Kay	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Kay	punct
28	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Kay	punct
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Kay	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Kay	amod
32	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Kay	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Kay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	behold	past	little maiden = maiden	Kay	there		tree rules
2	recognise	past	little maiden = maiden	Kay			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	fly	past	little maiden = maiden not said here				tree rules
4	embrace	to-infinitive	little maiden = maiden not said here	Kay			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	cry out speech: express	past	little maiden = maiden not said here	little maiden's arms			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hold	gerund	little maiden = maiden not said here	Kay		while	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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