Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 36
But these were really larger, and much more terrible, for they were alive, and were the guards of the Snow Queen, and had the strangest shapes.
Who acts: these, flakes · What happens: be, have · To what, where: guards, strangest shapes
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 (these, flakes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 larger | cc |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 larger | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 larger | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 larger | advmod |
| 5 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 terrible | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 terrible | cc |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 terrible | advmod |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 larger | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 alive | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 alive | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 alive | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 alive | cop |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 terrible | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guards | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 guards | cc |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guards | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guards | det |
| 20 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 alive | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Queen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 23 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Queen | compound |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 guards | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 larger | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shapes | det |
| 29 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 shapes | amod |
| 30 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 had | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | these | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | flakes = flake | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the guards | of the Snow Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | these not said here | the strangest shapes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
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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