Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 116

It then seemed to him as if what he knew was not enough, and he looked upwards in the large huge empty space above him, and on she flew with him; flew high over the black clouds, while the storm moaned and whistled as though it were singing some old tune.

Who acts: It, countenance, queen, storm · What happens: seem, know, not be, look, fly, moan · To what, where: countenance, black clouds, old tune · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, countenance, queen, storm), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seemed	advmod
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seemed	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 what	case
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 what	mark
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 seemed	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 enough	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 enough	advmod
13	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knew	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
18	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 space	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 space	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 space	amod
22	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 space	amod
23	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 space	amod
24	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl
25	above	above	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 space	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flew	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flew	cc
29	on	on	SCONJ	_	31 flew	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flew	nsubj
31	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flew	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 flew	punct
35	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
36	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 flew	advmod
37	over	over	ADP	_	40 clouds	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 clouds	det
39	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 clouds	amod
40	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flew	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 moaned	punct
42	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 moaned	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 storm	det
44	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 moaned	nsubj
45	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 flew	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 whistled	cc
47	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 moaned	conj
48	as	as	ADV	_	47 whistled	advmod
49	though	though	SCONJ	_	52 singing	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 singing	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 singing	aux
52	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 whistled	advcl
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	55 tune	det
54	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 tune	amod
55	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 singing	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		countenance		then		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	countenance						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	past						enough property	tree rules
4	look	past	countenance					in the large huge empty space above soul; upwards property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in space=Theme
5	fly	past	queen					with countenance	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fly	past				the black clouds		high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cloud=Location
7	moan	past	the storm						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	whistle	past	the storm not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	sing speech: express	past · progressive	storm	some old tune					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=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: «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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