Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 54

"Yes, there is always snow and ice," said the reindeer; "and it is a glorious place; you can leap and run about freely on the sparkling ice plains.

Who acts: snow, reindeer, you · What happens: be, say, leap, run about · To what, where: snow, reindeer, glorious place, sparkling ice plains · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (snow, reindeer, you), 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	_	7 snow	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 is	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 snow	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 is	advmod
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ice	cc
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snow	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reindeer	det
14	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 place	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 place	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 place	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
21	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 leap	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 leap	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 leap	aux
26	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 run	cc
28	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 leap	conj
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 freely	advmod
30	freely	freely	ADV	_	28 run	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	35 plains	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 plains	det
33	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 plains	amod
34	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 plains	compound
35	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 run	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		snow and ice			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	snow and ice	the reindeer			tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	reindeer	a glorious place			tree rules
4	leap in a quote	can	you				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run about in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		the sparkling ice plains	freely property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Trajectory

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/54/