Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 82

One winter's day, when the flakes of snow were flying about, he spread the skirts of his blue coat, and caught the snow as it fell.

Who acts: flakes, sun, snow · What happens: fly, spread, catch, fall · To what, where: skirts, snow

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 (flakes, sun, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 winter	nummod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 winter	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flying	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 flying	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flakes	det
8	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flying	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flakes	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flying	aux
12	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 spread	advcl
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 flying	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flying	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spread	nsubj
16	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skirts	det
18	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spread	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 coat	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 coat	nmod:poss
21	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 coat	amod
22	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skirts	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 caught	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 caught	cc
25	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spread	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 snow	det
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caught	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	the flakes of snow		day	about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	past	sun	the skirts of sun's blue coat			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skirt=Theme
3	catch	past	sun not said here	the snow			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme
4	fall	past	snow				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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