Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 22
These must be taken out, or he will never be a human being again, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him."
Who acts: Kay, Snow Queen · What happens: take out, not be, retain · To what, where: These, power
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, Snow Queen), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 taken | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 again | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 again | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 again | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 again | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 again | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 again | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 again | det |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 again | amod |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 again | cop |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 retain | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 retain | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 19 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Queen | compound |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 retain | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 retain | aux |
| 22 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 power | nmod:poss |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 retain | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 retain | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 retain | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | must · passive | These | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is | future | Kay | again property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | retain | future | the Snow Queen | Queen's power | over Kay | 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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