Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 31

The Snow Queen might come home now when she pleased, for there stood his certainty of freedom, in the word she wanted, written in shining letters of ice.

Who acts: Snow Queen, Queen · What happens: come, stand, want, write, shine, letter · To what, where: certainty, word, shining letters, ice

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, 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	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 come	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 pleased	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pleased	nsubj
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 stood	mark
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 stood	advmod
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 certainty	nmod:poss
16	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 freedom	case
18	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 certainty	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 word	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 word	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 word	det
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 word	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 written	punct
26	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 word	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 letters	case
28	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 letters	amod
29	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 written	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 ice	case
31	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 letters	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	might	the Snow Queen			now	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the Snow Queen not said here	Kay's certainty of freedom	the word; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent certainty=Theme in word=Destination
3	want	past	Queen	the word not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme
4	write	participle		the word not said here	shining letters of ice			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in letter=Destination
5	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	letter			ice				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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