Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 11

He dragged some sharp, flat pieces of ice to and fro, and placed them together in all kinds of positions, as if he wished to make something out of them; just as we try to form various figures with little tablets of wood which we call "a Chinese puzzle."

Who acts: Kay, we · What happens: drag, fro, place, wish, make, try · To what, where: sharp flat pieces, shiverings, kinds, something, various figures, little tablets · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kay, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 pieces	det
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pieces	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sharp	punct
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pieces	amod
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dragged	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pieces	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	2 dragged	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fro	cc
12	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dragged	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 placed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 placed	cc
15	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dragged	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 placed	obj
17	together	together	ADV	_	15 placed	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 kinds	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 kinds	det
20	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 placed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 positions	case
22	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kinds	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wished	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 wished	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wished	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wished	nsubj
27	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 placed	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wished	xcomp
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 make	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	33 them	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 try	punct
35	just	just	ADV	_	38 try	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 try	mark
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 try	nsubj
38	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dragged	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 form	mark
40	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 try	xcomp
41	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 figures	amod
42	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 form	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 tablets	case
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tablets	amod
45	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 form	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 wood	case
47	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tablets	nmod
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 call	obj
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 call	nsubj
50	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 tablets	acl:relcl
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 puzzle	punct
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 puzzle	det
53	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 puzzle	amod
54	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 call	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dragged	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past	Kay	some sharp flat pieces of ice			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	Kay not said here				tree rules
3	place	past	Kay not said here	shiverings = shivering	all kinds of positions	together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in kind=Destination
4	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	Kay				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	something		out shiverings = shivering	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product
6	try	present	we				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	form not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	various figures		with little tablets of wood	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme
8	call	present	we	little tablets of wood			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient

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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