Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 98
The snow-flakes grew larger and larger, till at last they looked just like great white fowls.
Who acts: snow flakes, flakes, great white · What happens: grow, look, fowl
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 (snow flakes, flakes, great white), 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 | 4 flakes | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flakes | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | conj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 last | acl:relcl |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 fowls | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 19 fowls | mark |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 white | amod |
| 18 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fowls | nsubj |
| 19 | fowls | fowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 looked | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the snow flakes | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | flakes = flake | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fowl | present | great white | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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