--- title: “'Tis true little Kay is at the Snow Queen's, and finds everything t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “'Tis true little Kay is at the Snow Queen's, and finds everything there quite to his taste; and he thinks it the very best place in the world; but the reason of that is, he has a splinter of glass in his eye, and in his heart. Who acts: Tis, Snow Queen, Kay, reason. 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Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis, Snow Queen, Kay, reason), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:14:119 # text = “'Tis true little Kay is at the Snow Queen's, and finds everything there quite to his taste; and he thinks it the very best place in the world; but the reason of that is, he has a splinter of glass in his eye, and in his heart. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Tis Tis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Snow Snow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 obj _ _ 17 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 ccomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nmod _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tis and true little Kay | | | | | at the Snow Queen | tree rules | | 2 | **find** *in a quote* | present | the Snow Queen *not said here* | everything | | | | to Kay's taste | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Kay | taste | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the reason of that | | | | | have *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **taste** *in a quote* | | Kay | | | | | | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/120/) - ↑ back to [The Snow Queen, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/14/)