Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 69

And “Schnipp-schnapp-schnurre-basselurre,” said the robber maiden; and she took the hands of each, and promised that if she should some day pass through the town where they lived, she would come and visit them; and then away she rode.

Who acts: schnapp schnurre basselurre, basselurre, hands · What happens: say, take, promise, pass, live, come · To what, where: robber maiden, hands, town · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (schnapp schnurre basselurre, basselurre, hands), 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	_	9 basselurre	cc
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 schnapp	punct
3	Schnipp	schnipp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 schnapp	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Schnipp	punct
5	schnapp	schnapp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 basselurre	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 schnapp	punct
7	schnurre	schnurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 basselurre	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 schnurre	punct
9	basselurre	basselurre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 basselurre	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 basselurre	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
14	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maiden	compound
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hands	det
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 each	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 hands	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 promised	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 promised	cc
26	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 pass	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 should	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 should	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 pass	aux
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 should	obl:unmarked
33	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 come	advcl
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pass	obl
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 lived	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 lived	nsubj
39	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 town	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pass	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 come	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 promised	ccomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 visit	cc
45	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 come	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 visit	obj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 rode	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 rode	cc
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 away	advmod
50	away	away	ADV	_	52 rode	advmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 rode	nsubj
52	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	schnapp schnurre basselurre	the robber maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic
2	take	past	basselurre	the hands of each			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	basselurre not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pass	should	basselurre not said here		the town		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location
5	live	past	hands = hand				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	would	basselurre				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	visit	infinitive	basselurre not said here	hands = hand			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
8	ride	past	basselurre			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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