Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 14

Higher and higher still they flew, nearer and nearer to the stars, when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning, that it flew out of their hands and fell to the earth, where it was dashed in a hundred million and more pieces.

Who acts: Higher, mirror, joke · What happens: fly, shake, grin, fly out, fall, dash · To what, where: hands, joke

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 (Higher, mirror, joke), 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	Higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 flew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 higher	cc
3	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Higher	conj
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nearer	punct
8	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 flew	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nearer	cc
10	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 nearer	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 stars	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stars	det
13	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nearer	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shook	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 shook	mark
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 shook	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mirror	det
18	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shook	nsubj
19	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 terribly	advmod
21	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	19 shook	advmod
22	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 grinning	mark
23	grinning	grin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 shook	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 flew	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flew	nsubj
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shook	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 hands	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 hands	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flew	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fell	cc
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flew	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 earth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dashed	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 dashed	advmod
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 dashed	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 dashed	aux:pass
41	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 earth	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 million	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 million	det
44	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 million	compound
45	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 pieces	nummod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 pieces	cc
47	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 pieces	amod
48	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 dashed	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Higher		still		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	past	the mirror			suddenly, terribly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	grin	gerund	the mirror not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fly out	past	joke	sprite's hands			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
5	fall	past	joke not said here			to the earth	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme
6	dash	past · passive		joke			vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient piece=Result

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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