Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 15
The Snow Queen had said to him, "When you can find out this, you shall be your own master, and I will give you the whole world and a new pair of skates."
Who acts: Snow Queen, Kay · What happens: say, find out, be, give · To what, where: Kay, this, own master, whole world · 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 (Snow Queen, Kay), 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 | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 find | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 find | compound:prt |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 master | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 master | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 master | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 master | cop |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 master | amod |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 give | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 give | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 give | aux |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 give | iobj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 world | amod |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 give | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pair | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pair | det |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pair | amod |
| 35 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 world | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 skates | case |
| 37 | skates | skate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pair | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the Snow Queen | Kay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find out in a quote | can | Kay | this | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | Kay | your own master | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | the Snow Queen = queen | the whole world and a new pair of skates | Kay | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient world=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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