Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 10
Little Kay was quite blue with cold, indeed almost black, but he did not feel it; for the Snow Queen had kissed away the icy shiverings, and his heart was already a lump of ice.
Who acts: Little Kay, Kay, Snow Queen, heart · What happens: be, not feel, kiss · To what, where: lake, lump
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Kay, Kay, Snow Queen, heart), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Kay | amod |
| 2 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 blue | advmod |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cold | case |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blue | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 black | punct |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 black | advmod |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 black | advmod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blue | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 feel | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feel | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 feel | advmod |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blue | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 kissed | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 kissed | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 22 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Queen | compound |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 kissed | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kissed | aux |
| 25 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 feel | advcl |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 kissed | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shiverings | det |
| 28 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shiverings | amod |
| 29 | shiverings | shivering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 away | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lump | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lump | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lump | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lump | cop |
| 35 | already | already | ADV | _ | 37 lump | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 lump | det |
| 37 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kissed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 ice | case |
| 39 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lump | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Little Kay | with cold; blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not feel | past · do-support | Kay | lake | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past · perfect | the Snow Queen | away property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Kay's heart | a lump | of ice | 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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