Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 76
And Kay and Gerda looked in each other's eyes, and all at once they understood the old hymn:
Who acts: Kay, all · What happens: look, understand · To what, where: old hymn
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 (Kay, all), 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 looked | cc |
| 2 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Gerda | cc |
| 4 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kay | conj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 eyes | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 other | case |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 understood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 understood | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 understood | nsubj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 all | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 understood | nsubj |
| 17 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hymn | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hymn | amod |
| 20 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 understood | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Kay and Gerda | in each other eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | all | the old hymn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hymn=Stimulus |
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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