Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 34
When they arrived at the bush with red berries, there stood the reindeer waiting for them, and he had brought another young reindeer with him, whose udders were full, and the children drank her warm milk and kissed her on the mouth.
Who acts: words, reindeer, sun, udders, children · What happens: arrive, stand, wait, bring, be, drink · To what, where: bush, reindeer, young reindeer, warm milk, Queen, mouth
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 (words, reindeer, sun, udders), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 bush | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 berries | case |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 berries | amod |
| 9 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 stood | expl |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reindeer | det |
| 14 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 reindeer | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waiting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | conj |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 reindeer | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reindeer | amod |
| 25 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reindeer | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 full | punct |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 udders | nmod:poss |
| 30 | udders | udder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 full | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 full | cop |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reindeer | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 drank | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 drank | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 children | det |
| 36 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 drank | nsubj |
| 37 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | parataxis |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 milk | nmod:poss |
| 39 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 milk | amod |
| 40 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 drank | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 kissed | cc |
| 42 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 drank | conj |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 kissed | obj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 mouth | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 mouth | det |
| 46 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kissed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | words = word | the bush | with red berries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the reindeer | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reindeer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the reindeer not said here | for words = word | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect | sun | another young reindeer | with Kay | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | udders | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drink | past | the children | Queen's warm milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | ||||
| 7 | kiss | past | the children not said here | Queen | the mouth | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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