Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 73
And why did you leave her?" asked the Snow Man, for it seemed to him that the stove must be of the female sex. "
Who acts: you, it, stove · What happens: leave, ask, seem, be · To what, where: snow, Snow Man, Man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, stove), 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 leave | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 leave | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Man | det |
| 11 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Man | compound |
| 12 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seemed | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 seemed | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seemed | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 sex | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stove | det |
| 21 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sex | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 sex | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sex | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sex | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sex | det |
| 26 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sex | amod |
| 27 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | you | snow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the Snow Man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | past | it | Man | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | must | the stove | of the female sex | tree rules |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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