Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 6
The Snow Queen lives there now, and she burns Bengal lights every evening.
Who acts: Snow Queen, Queen · What happens: live, burn · To what, where: Bengal lights
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 (Snow Queen, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 2 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | compound |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lives | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lives | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 burns | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 burns | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 burns | nsubj |
| 10 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lives | conj |
| 11 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lights | compound |
| 12 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 burns | obj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 evening | det |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burns | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Snow Queen | there | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | present | Queen | Bengal lights | evening | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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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