Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 5
There were no pleasant games of snap-dragon, or touch, or even a gossip over the tea-table, for the young-lady foxes.
Who acts: pleasant games · What happens: be
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 (pleasant games), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 games | det |
| 4 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 games | amod |
| 5 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 7 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragon | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 snap | punct |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 games | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 touch | cc |
| 12 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gossip | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 gossip | cc |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 gossip | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gossip | det |
| 17 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touch | nmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 table | det |
| 20 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 table | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tea | punct |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gossip | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 foxes | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 foxes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 foxes | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lady | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 young | punct |
| 28 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 foxes | compound |
| 29 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no pleasant games of snap dragon | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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