Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 14

In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along, and jump right over the little Tree.

Who acts: snow, hare · What happens: lie, glitter, come, leap, jump · To what, where: ground, little Tree

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, hare), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 winter	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 lay	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snow	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lay	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glittering	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hare	det
14	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lay	conj
18	leaping	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 come	xcomp
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 leaping	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 jump	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 jump	cc
22	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	conj
23	right	right	ADV	_	22 jump	advmod
24	over	over	ADP	_	27 Tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Tree	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Tree	amod
27	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 jump	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the snow		winter		tree rules
2	glitter	gerund	the snow not said here	the ground			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
3	come	would	a hare			often property	tree rules
4	leap	gerund	a hare not said here			along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	jump	infinitive	a hare not said here	the little Tree		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory

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.

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