Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 136

There then came a whole regiment of snow-flakes, but they did not fall from above, and they were quite bright and shining from the Aurora Borealis.

Who acts: flakes · What happens: come, not fall, be, shine · To what, where: whole regiment, Aurora Borealis

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 (flakes), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 regiment	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 regiment	amod
6	regiment	regiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 flakes	case
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flakes	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snow	punct
10	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 regiment	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fall	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fall	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fall	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fall	advmod
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 above	case
18	above	above	ADV	_	16 fall	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bright	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bright	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bright	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bright	cop
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 bright	advmod
24	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shining	cc
26	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 bright	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 Borealis	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Borealis	det
29	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Borealis	compound
30	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 shining	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		a whole regiment of snow flakes	there	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location regiment=Theme
2	not fall	past · do-support	flakes = flake					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial_Location
3	is	past	flakes = flake				bright property	tree rules
4	shine	gerund	flakes = flake not said here		the Aurora Borealis			vn light_emission-43.1 «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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