Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 74
The fur and the cap, which were made entirely of snow, fell off, and he saw a lady, tall and white, it was the Snow Queen.
Who acts: fur, snow · What happens: make, fall off, see, be · To what, where: cap, lady, Snow Queen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fur, snow), 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 fur | det |
| 2 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cap | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cap | det |
| 5 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fur | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cap | acl:relcl |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 snow | case |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fur | punct |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 fell | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fell | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tall | punct |
| 23 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 white | cc |
| 25 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tall | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Queen | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 Queen | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 Queen | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Queen | det |
| 30 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Queen | compound |
| 31 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the cap | of snow; entirely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | the fur and the cap | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | see | past | fur | a lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | snow | the Snow Queen | 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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