Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 9
She called the lake "The Mirror of Reason," and said that it was the best, and indeed the only one in the world.
Who acts: flame, lake · What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: lake · 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 (flame, lake), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lake | det |
| 4 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mirror | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mirror | det |
| 7 | Mirror | Mirror | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Reason | case |
| 9 | Reason | Reason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mirror | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mirror | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mirror | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 best | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 best | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 best | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 best | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 one | cc |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 one | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 one | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | flame | the lake | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lake=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | flame not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | lake | good property | tree rules |
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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