Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 48

The flake of snow grew larger and larger; and at last it was like a young lady, dressed in the finest white gauze, made of a million little flakes like stars.

Who acts: flake, snow · What happens: grow, be, dress, make · To what, where: last young lady, finest white gauze

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 (flake, snow), 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 flake	det
2	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 snow	case
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flake	nmod
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 larger	cc
8	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 larger	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lady	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lady	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	amod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lady	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lady	cop
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 lady	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lady	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	amod
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dressed	punct
20	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 lady	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 gauze	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gauze	det
23	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 gauze	amod
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gauze	amod
25	gauze	gauze	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dressed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 gauze	acl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 flakes	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 million	det
30	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 flakes	nummod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flakes	amod
32	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 made	obl
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 stars	case
34	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 flakes	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the flake of snow			large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	snow			like a last young lady	tree rules
3	dress	participle		a last young lady not said here	the finest white gauze		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	participle		the finest white gauze not said here		of million little flakes like stars	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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