--- title: The Snow Queen had said to him, "When you can find out this, you sha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The Snow Queen had said to him, "When you can find out this, you shall be your own master, and I will give you the whole world and a new pair of skates." Who acts: Snow Queen, Kay. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Snow Queen, Kay), 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:pg27200:176:15 # text = The Snow Queen had said to him, "When you can find out this, you shall be your own master, and I will give you the whole world and a new pair of skates." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Snow Snow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 skates skate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Snow Queen | | Kay | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **find out** *in a quote* | can | Kay | this | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | Kay | your own master | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | future | the Snow Queen *= queen* | the whole world and a new pair of skates | Kay | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient world=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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/16/) - ↑ back to [Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/)