Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 84
And every flake seemed larger, and appeared like a magnificent flower, or beautiful star; it was splendid to look at!
Who acts: flake, snow · What happens: seem, appear, be, look · To what, where: beautiful star
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 seemed | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 flake | det |
| 3 | flake | flake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 appeared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 appeared | cc |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seemed | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 flower | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flower | det |
| 11 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flower | amod |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 star | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 star | cc |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 star | amod |
| 16 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 splendid | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 splendid | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 splendid | cop |
| 20 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seemed | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 splendid | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 look | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | every flake | large property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | every flake not said here | beautiful star | like a magnificent flower | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | snow | splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | snow not said here | 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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