Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 29

It was so pleasing to see them that the pieces of ice even danced about; and when they were tired and went to lie down, they formed themselves into the letters of the word which the Snow Queen had said he must find out before he could be his own master, and have the whole world and a pair of new skates.

Who acts: It, pieces, looks, Snow Queen, Kay · What happens: be, see, dance, go, lie down, form · To what, where: looks, letters, word, 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 (It, pieces, looks, Snow Queen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleasing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleasing	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 pleasing	advmod
4	pleasing	pleasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pleasing	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 danced	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pieces	det
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 danced	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 ice	case
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	nmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 danced	advmod
14	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	advcl
15	about	about	ADV	_	14 danced	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tired	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 tired	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pleasing	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 lie	mark
25	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 went	xcomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 lie	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 formed	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 formed	nsubj
29	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleasing	parataxis
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 formed	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 letters	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 letters	det
33	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 formed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 word	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 word	det
36	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 letters	nmod
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 said	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Queen	det
39	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Queen	compound
40	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 said	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 said	aux
42	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 word	acl:relcl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 find	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 find	aux
45	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 said	ccomp
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 find	compound:prt
47	before	before	SCONJ	_	53 master	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 master	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 master	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 master	cop
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 master	nmod:poss
52	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 master	amod
53	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 find	xcomp
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 have	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 have	cc
56	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 formed	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 world	det
58	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 world	amod
59	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 have	obj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 pair	cc
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 pair	det
62	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 world	conj
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 skates	case
64	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 skates	amod
65	skates	skate	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 pair	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleasing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			pleasing property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		looks = look			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	dance	past	the pieces of ice			about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	looks = look			tired property	tree rules
5	go	past	looks = look not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	lie down	to-infinitive	looks = look not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	form	past	looks = look	looks = look	the letters of the word		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Snow Queen	the word			tree rules
9	find out	must	Kay				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
10	is a	could	Kay	Kay's own master			tree rules
11	have	infinitive	looks = look not said here	the whole world and a pair of new skates			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient
12	letter			the word			nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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