Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 28
"It will not reach us," said two who sat together behind the steam dragon. "
Who acts: avalanche, two · What happens: not reach, say, sit · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (avalanche, two), 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 | _ | 5 reach | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reach | advmod |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 reach | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 sat | advmod |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 dragon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 16 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dragon | compound |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach in a quote | future | avalanche | us | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | sit | past | two | behind the steam dragon; together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind dragon=Location |
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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