Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 11
The walls of the palace were of driving snow, and the windows and doors of cutting winds.
Who acts: walls, windows · What happens: drive, be, door
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, windows), 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 walls | det |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 snow | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walls | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 snow | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 snow | case |
| 8 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 snow | amod |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 doors | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 doors | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 windows | det |
| 13 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 doors | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 doors | cc |
| 15 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 snow | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 winds | case |
| 17 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 winds | compound |
| 18 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 doors | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 snow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | gerund | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the walls of the palace | of driving snow and doors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | door | the windows | of cutting winds | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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