Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 28

And he looked all around him, and said, "How cold it is, and how large and empty it all looks," and he clung to Gerda, and she laughed and wept for joy.

Who acts: Kay, child, Gerda · What happens: look, say, be, cling, laugh, weep · To what, where: Gerda · 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, child, Gerda), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 looked	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 him	advmod
5	around	around	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cold	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 cold	punct
12	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cold	advmod
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cold	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cold	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 large	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 large	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 large	advmod
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 empty	cc
21	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 large	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 large	nsubj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 looks	det
24	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 large	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looks	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 large	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 clung	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 clung	nsubj
29	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Gerda	case
31	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 clung	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 laughed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 laughed	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 laughed	nsubj
35	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 wept	cc
37	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 laughed	conj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 joy	case
39	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wept	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Kay		around splinter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Kay not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	child		cold property	tree rules
4	cling	past	Kay	Gerda		vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to gerda=Co-Theme
5	laugh	past	Gerda			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	weep	past	Gerda not said here		for joy	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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