Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 19
And away flew the Snow Queen, leaving little Kay quite alone in the great hall which was so many miles in length; so he sat and looked at his pieces of ice, and was thinking so deeply, and sat so still, that any one might have supposed he was frozen.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: fly, leave, sit, look, think, suppose · To what, where: Snow Queen, little Kay, great hall, one, Kay
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 flew | cc |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 5 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Queen | compound |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Kay | amod |
| 10 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 alone | advmod |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 leaving | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hall | amod |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 was | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hall | acl:relcl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 many | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 miles | amod |
| 21 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 was | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 length | case |
| 23 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 miles | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 sat | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 sat | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sat | nsubj |
| 27 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looked | cc |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sat | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 pieces | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 32 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 looked | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ice | case |
| 34 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pieces | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 thinking | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thinking | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 thinking | aux |
| 38 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | conj |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 deeply | advmod |
| 40 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 38 thinking | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sat | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sat | cc |
| 43 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 still | advmod |
| 45 | still | still | ADV | _ | 43 sat | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 supposed | punct |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 supposed | mark |
| 48 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 one | det |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 supposed | aux |
| 51 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 supposed | aux |
| 52 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 sat | conj |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 frozen | nsubj |
| 54 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 frozen | aux:pass |
| 55 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 supposed | xcomp |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the Snow Queen | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | little Kay | the great hall | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kay=Theme in hall=Location | |||
| 3 | sit | past | Kay | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | past | Kay not said here | at Kay's pieces of ice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at piece=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past · progressive | deeply property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sit | past | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | suppose | might · perfect · passive | any one | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | freeze | past · passive | Kay | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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