Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 29

They now thought of placing the boxes across the gutter, so that they nearly reached from one window to the other, and looked just like two walls of flowers.

Who acts: parents · What happens: think, place, reach, look · To what, where: boxes, gutter, one window

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 (parents), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 thought	advmod
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 placing	mark
5	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thought	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boxes	det
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 placing	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 gutter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gutter	det
10	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reached	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 reached	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	nsubj
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 reached	advmod
16	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 window	nummod
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reached	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looked	cc
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
26	just	just	ADV	_	29 walls	advmod
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 walls	case
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 walls	nummod
29	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 looked	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 flowers	case
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 walls	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	parents = parent			now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	place	gerund	parents = parent not said here	the boxes	the gutter			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
3	reach	past	parents = parent		one window		to the other; nearly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	parents = parent not said here				like two walls of flowers	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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