Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 117

When she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen written thereon; and the Finland woman read at such a rate that the perspiration trickled down her forehead.

Who acts: strength, strange characters, Finland woman, perspiration · What happens: unroll, see, write, read, trickle down · To what, where: skin, strange characters, rate, forehead

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, strange characters, Finland woman, perspiration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:1274): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 unrolled	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unrolled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unrolled	aux
4	unrolled	unroll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 seen	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unrolled	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unrolled	punct
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 characters	amod
8	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seen	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	12 seen	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 seen	aux:pass
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 seen	xcomp
14	thereon	thereon	ADV	_	13 written	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 read	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 read	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 woman	compound
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	nsubj
20	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 rate	case
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 rate	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rate	det
24	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 trickled	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 perspiration	det
27	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trickled	nsubj
28	trickled	trickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 read	advcl
29	down	down	ADP	_	31 forehead	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 forehead	nmod:poss
31	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trickled	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unroll	past · perfect	strength	skin			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	see	past · passive		strange characters			tree rules
3	write	participle	strange characters not said here			thereon property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	read	past	the Finland woman		such rate		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at rate=Value
5	trickle down	past	the perspiration	strength's forehead			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forehead=Source

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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