Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 33

The windows were often frozen over; but then they heated copper farthings on the stove, and laid the hot farthing on the windowpane, and then they had a capital peep-hole, quite nicely rounded; and out of each peeped a gentle friendly eye--it was the little boy and the little girl who were looking out.

Who acts: boxes, window, little girl · What happens: freeze over, heat, lay, have, round, peep · To what, where: windows, copper farthings, hot farthing, windowpane, capital peep hole, gentle friendly eye

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 (boxes, window, little girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 windows	det
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 frozen	advmod
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 frozen	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 heated	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 heated	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 heated	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heated	nsubj
11	heated	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	parataxis
12	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 farthings	compound
13	farthings	farthing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heated	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 stove	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stove	det
16	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heated	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laid	cc
19	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heated	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 farthing	det
21	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 farthing	amod
22	farthing	farthing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 windowpane	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 windowpane	det
25	windowpane	windowpane	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laid	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 had	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heated	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hole	det
32	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hole	amod
33	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hole	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 peep	punct
35	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rounded	punct
37	quite	quite	ADV	_	39 rounded	advmod
38	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	39 rounded	advmod
39	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 hole	acl:relcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 peeped	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 peeped	cc
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 peeped	mark
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 each	case
44	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	45 peeped	obl
45	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 eye	det
47	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 eye	amod
48	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 eye	amod
49	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 peeped	obj
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 boy	punct
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 boy	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 boy	cop
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 boy	det
54	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 boy	amod
55	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 peeped	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 girl	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 girl	det
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 girl	amod
59	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 boy	conj
60	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 looking	nsubj
61	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 looking	aux
62	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 girl	conj
63	out	out	ADP	_	62 looking	compound:prt
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze over	past · passive		the windows			often, over property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	heat	past	boxes = box	copper farthings		then	on the stove	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent farthing=Patient on stove=Instrument
3	lay	past	boxes = box not said here	the hot farthing	the windowpane			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent farthing=Theme on windowpane=Destination
4	have	past	boxes = box	a capital peep hole		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
5	round	participle		a capital peep hole not said here			nicely property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	peep	past		a gentle friendly eye			of each	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
7	is a	past	window	the little boy and the little girl				tree rules
8	look out	past · progressive	the little girl					vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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