Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 137
The flakes ran along the ground, and the nearer they came the larger they grew.
Who acts: flakes · What happens: run, come, grow · To what, where: ground
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flakes | det |
| 2 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nearer | det |
| 10 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 larger | det |
| 14 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 came | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 larger | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the flakes | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | flakes = flake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | flakes = flake | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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