Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 40

Many a winter's night she flies through the streets of the town, and peeps in at the windows; and they then freeze in so wondrous a manner that they look like flowers.”

Who acts: swarm, streets · What happens: fly, peep, freeze, look · To what, where: streets, wondrous manner

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 (swarm, streets), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 winter	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flies	obl:unmarked
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flies	nsubj
7	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 streets	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 streets	det
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flies	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 streets	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 peeps	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 peeps	cc
16	peeps	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 flies	conj
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 peeps	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 windows	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 windows	det
20	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 peeps	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 freeze	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 freeze	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 freeze	nsubj
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 freeze	advmod
25	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 flies	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 manner	case
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 wondrous	advmod
28	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 manner	amod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 manner	det
30	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 freeze	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 look	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 look	nsubj
33	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 freeze	advcl
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 look	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flies	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	swarm	the streets of the town	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through street=Location
2	peep	present	swarm not said here			at the windows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
3	freeze	present	streets = street	a wondrous manner	then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	look	present	streets = street			like 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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