The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 26

‘Where was the Snow-queen going to?

Who acts: Snow queen · What happens: be, go

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow queen), 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	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 queen	det
5	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 queen	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Snow	punct
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 queen	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 going	fixed
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Snow queen					where property	tree rules
2	go	gerund	the Snow queen not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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