Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 43

"You are a fine fellow to go gadding about in this way," said she to little Kay, "I should like to know whether you deserve that any one should go to the end of the world to find you."

Who acts: little Kay, girl, one · What happens: be, go, gad, say, like, know · To what, where: fine fellow, little Kay, end · 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 (little Kay, girl, one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fellow	acl
9	gadding	gad	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 go	xcomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gadding	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Kay	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Kay	amod
20	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 like	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 like	aux
25	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 know	mark
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 like	xcomp
28	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	30 deserve	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 deserve	nsubj
30	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	ccomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 go	mark
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 deserve	ccomp
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 end	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 end	nmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 find	mark
43	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 go	advcl
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 find	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	little Kay = kay	a fine fellow				tree rules
2	go in a quote	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gad in a quote	gerund	girl not said here				about this way	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	girl		little Kay			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to kay=Recipient clause=Topic
5	like in a quote	should	girl					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	deserve in a quote	present	little Kay = kay					tree rules
8	go in a quote	should	any one			to the end of the world		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
9	find in a quote	to-infinitive	any one not said here	little Kay = kay				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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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