Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 41
It was the little robber-maiden, who had got tired of staying at home; she was going first to the north, and if that did not suit her, she meant to try some other part of the world.
Who acts: It, girl, that · What happens: be, get, stay, go, not suit, mean · To what, where: home, north, girl, other part
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, girl, that), 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 | 7 maiden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 maiden | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maiden | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maiden | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 robber | punct |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 maiden | parataxis |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 staying | mark |
| 14 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 tired | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 staying | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 maiden | csubj |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 going | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 north | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 north | det |
| 24 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 meant | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 meant | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 suit | mark |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 suit | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 suit | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 suit | advmod |
| 31 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 meant | advcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 suit | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 suit | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 meant | nsubj |
| 35 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 maiden | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 try | mark |
| 37 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 meant | xcomp |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 part | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 part | amod |
| 40 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 try | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 part | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | little obl:unmarked; maiden property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stay | gerund | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | girl | the north | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to north=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | not suit a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | that | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mean | past | girl | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | some other part of the world | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
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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