Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 52
"She was most likely travelling to Lapland, where there is always snow and ice.
Who acts: Queen, snow · What happens: be · To what, where: Lapland
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelling | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 travelling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 travelling | cop |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 travelling | advmod |
| 6 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Lapland | case |
| 8 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 travelling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 is | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 travelling | parataxis |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 snow | advmod |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ice | cc |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snow | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Queen | Lapland | likely, travel property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | snow and ice | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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