Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 47

A few snow-flakes were falling, and one, the largest of all, remained lying on the edge of a flower-pot.

Who acts: few snow flakes · What happens: fall, remain, lie · To what, where: largest, edge

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 (few snow flakes), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flakes	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flakes	amod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flakes	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 falling	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 falling	aux
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 largest	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 largest	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 largest	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 largest	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 largest	det
13	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 falling	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 largest	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remained	punct
17	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 falling	conj
18	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 remained	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 edge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edge	det
21	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 pot	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pot	det
24	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pot	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 flower	punct
26	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 edge	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	a few snow flakes	the largest		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remain	past	a few snow flakes not said here			tree rules
3	lie	gerund	a few snow flakes not said here		the edge of a flower pot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location

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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