Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 21

It was full of cracks from top to bottom; and out of the openings magpies and rooks were flying; and the great bull-dogs, each of which looked as if he could swallow a man, jumped up, but they did not bark, for that was forbidden.

Who acts: carriage, magpies, great bull dogs, Kay, dogs · What happens: be, fly, look, swallow, jump up, not bark · To what, where: openings, man, that

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 (carriage, magpies, great bull dogs, Kay), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 full	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cracks	case
5	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 top	case
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cracks	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 top	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 flying	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flying	cc
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 openings	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 openings	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 openings	det
15	openings	opening	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flying	obl
16	magpies	magpie	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flying	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rooks	cc
18	rooks	rook	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 magpies	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 flying	aux
20	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 full	parataxis
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 looked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 looked	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dogs	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dogs	amod
25	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dogs	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 bull	punct
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 looked	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 each	punct
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 looked	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 each	nmod
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	conj
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 swallow	mark
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 swallow	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 swallow	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 swallow	aux
37	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 looked	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 man	det
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swallow	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 jumped	punct
41	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 swallow	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 jumped	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 bark	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 bark	cc
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 bark	nsubj
46	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 bark	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 bark	advmod
48	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 full	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 forbidden	punct
50	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 forbidden	mark
51	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 forbidden	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 forbidden	aux:pass
53	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 bark	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	carriage			of cracks from top to bottom; full property	tree rules
2	fly	past · progressive	magpies and rooks		the openings		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent out opening=Location
3	look	past	the great bull dogs				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	swallow	could	Kay	a man			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
5	jump up	past	Kay not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not bark	past · do-support	dogs = dog				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	forbid	past · passive		that			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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