Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 12
Kay's fingers were very artistic; it was the icy game of reason at which he played, and in his eyes the figures were very remarkable, and of the highest importance; this opinion was owing to the piece of glass still sticking in his eye.
Who acts: fingers, piece, Kay, eyes, opinion · What happens: be, play, owe, stick · To what, where: icy game, reason, piece, eye
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 (fingers, piece, Kay, eyes), 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 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kay | case |
| 3 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 artistic | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 artistic | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 artistic | advmod |
| 6 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 game | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 game | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 game | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 game | det |
| 11 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 game | amod |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 artistic | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reason | case |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 game | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 played | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 played | nsubj |
| 18 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reason | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 remarkable | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 remarkable | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 remarkable | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 figures | det |
| 25 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 remarkable | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 remarkable | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 remarkable | advmod |
| 28 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 game | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 importance | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 importance | cc |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 importance | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 importance | det |
| 33 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 importance | amod |
| 34 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remarkable | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 owing | punct |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 opinion | det |
| 37 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 owing | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 owing | aux |
| 39 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 artistic | appos |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 piece | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 piece | det |
| 42 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 owing | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 glass | case |
| 44 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 piece | nmod |
| 45 | still | still | ADV | _ | 46 sticking | advmod |
| 46 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 owing | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 eye | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 eye | nmod:poss |
| 49 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sticking | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 artistic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kay's fingers | artistic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | piece | the icy game | of reason | tree rules | |||
| 3 | play | past | Kay | reason | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Kay's eyes | of the highest importance; remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | owe | past · progressive | this opinion | to the piece of glass goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to piece=Goal | ||||
| 6 | stick | gerund | this opinion not said here | Kay's eye | still | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in eye=Destination |
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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