Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 138

Gerda well remembered how large and strange the snow-flakes appeared when she once saw them through a magnifying-glass; but now they were large and terrific in another manner--they were all alive.

Who acts: Gerda, snow flakes, flakes · What happens: remember, appear, see, magnify, be · To what, where: flakes, magnifying glass, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Gerda, snow flakes, flakes), 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:pg1597:1292): 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	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 remembered	nsubj
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 remembered	advmod
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 large	advmod
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 appeared	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strange	cc
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 large	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flakes	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flakes	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snow	punct
11	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	ccomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 saw	advmod
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 appeared	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	through	through	ADP	_	22 glass	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 glass	det
20	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 glass	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 magnifying	punct
22	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 large	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 large	cc
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 large	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 large	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 large	cop
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remembered	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 terrific	cc
30	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 large	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 manner	case
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 manner	det
33	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 terrific	obl
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 alive	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 alive	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 alive	cop
37	all	all	ADV	_	38 alive	advmod
38	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 large	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Gerda				well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	appear	past	the snow flakes				large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	Gerda	flakes = flake	a magnifying glass		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	magnify	gerund						vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	flakes = flake			now	large property	tree rules
6	be		flakes = flake not said here		another manner			tree rules
7	is	past	flakes = flake				alive, all property	tree rules

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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