Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 8
He never thought of Gerda, and least of all that she was standing before the palace.
Who acts: Kay, Gerda · What happens: not think, stand · To what, where: least, palace
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gerda | case |
| 5 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 least | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 least | cc |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 standing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 that | det |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 least | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 standing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 standing | aux |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | advcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past | Kay | of Gerda | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | Gerda | least | the palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before palace=Location |
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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