Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 6
The angels patted her hands and feet; and then she felt the cold less, and went on quickly towards the palace of the Snow Queen.
Who acts: angels, Gerda · What happens: pat, feel, go on · To what, where: hands
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 (angels, Gerda), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 angels | det |
| 2 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 patted | nsubj |
| 3 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 patted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hands | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 felt | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 patted | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cold | det |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 cold | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 patted | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Queen | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Queen | det |
| 26 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Queen | compound |
| 27 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 patted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | past | the angels | Gerda's hands and feet | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Gerda | then | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | go on | past | the angels not said here | towards the palace of the Snow Queen; quickly property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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