Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 91

Two little girls are sitting in it, and swing themselves backwards and forwards; their frocks are as white as snow, and long green silk ribands flutter from their bonnets.

Who acts: Two little girls, frocks, long green silk ribands · What happens: sit, swing, be, flutter · To what, where: board, trees, bonnets

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two little girls, frocks, long green silk ribands), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 girls	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girls	amod
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sitting	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swing	cc
10	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sitting	conj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 swing	obj
12	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	10 swing	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 forwards	cc
14	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	12 backwards	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 white	punct
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 frocks	nmod:poss
17	frocks	frock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 white	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 white	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 white	advmod
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sitting	parataxis
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 snow	case
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 white	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flutter	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flutter	cc
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ribands	amod
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ribands	amod
27	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ribands	compound
28	ribands	riband	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flutter	nsubj
29	flutter	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 white	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 bonnets	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bonnets	nmod:poss
32	bonnets	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flutter	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	Two little girls		board		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
2	swing	infinitive	Two little girls not said here	trees = tree		backwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
3	is	present	trees's frocks			as snow; white property	tree rules
4	flutter	present	long green silk ribands		trees's bonnets		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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