Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 52

The next day it was a sharp frost--and then the spring came; the sun shone, the green leaves appeared, the swallows built their nests, the windows were opened, and the little children again sat in their pretty garden, high up on the leads at the top of the house.

Who acts: next day, spring, sun, green leaves, swallows, little children · What happens: be, come, shine, appear, build, open · To what, where: sharp frost, nests, windows, pretty garden

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 (next day, spring, sun, green leaves), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frost	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 frost	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frost	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frost	det
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frost	amod
8	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 came	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spring	det
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frost	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 shone	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shone	nsubj
18	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 appeared	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaves	det
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaves	amod
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 appeared	nsubj
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shone	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 built	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 swallows	det
26	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 built	nsubj
27	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 appeared	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nests	nmod:poss
29	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 built	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 opened	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 windows	det
32	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 opened	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 opened	aux:pass
34	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 built	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sat	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sat	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 children	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 children	amod
39	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sat	nsubj
40	again	again	ADV	_	41 sat	advmod
41	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 garden	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 garden	nmod:poss
44	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 garden	amod
45	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sat	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 up	punct
47	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 up	amod
48	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 garden	appos
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 leads	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 leads	det
51	leads	lead	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sat	obl
52	at	at	ADP	_	54 top	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 top	det
54	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sat	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 house	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 house	det
57	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 top	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 frost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the next day	a sharp frost				tree rules
2	come	past	the spring			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shine	past	the sun					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	appear	past	the green leaves					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	build	past	the swallows	swallows's nests				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
6	open	past · passive		the windows				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	sit	past	the little children		swallows's pretty garden	again	on the leads; at the top of the house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=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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