Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 13

He composed many complete figures, forming different words, but there was one word he never could manage to form, although he wished it very much.

Who acts: Kay, one word · What happens: compose, form, be, not manage, not form, wish · To what, where: many complete figures, different words, one word, piece

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, one word), 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 composed	nsubj
2	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 figures	amod
4	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 figures	amod
5	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 composed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forming	punct
7	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 composed	advcl
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forming	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 composed	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 word	nummod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 manage	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 manage	advmod
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 manage	aux
19	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 word	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 form	mark
21	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 manage	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wished	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	25 wished	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wished	nsubj
25	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 form	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wished	obj
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	25 wished	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 composed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	compose	past	Kay	many complete figures		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Result
2	form	gerund	Kay not said here	different words		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
3	be	past	one word		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not manage	could	Kay	one word not said here		tree rules
5	not form	to-infinitive	Kay not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wish	past	Kay	piece		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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