Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 17

In the middle of the empty, endless hall of snow, was a frozen lake; it was cracked in a thousand pieces, but each piece was so like the other, that it seemed the work of a cunning artificer.

Who acts: frozen lake, piece, it, cunning artificer · What happens: freeze, be, crack, seem, work · To what, where: frozen lake, middle, lake, thousand pieces, work

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 (frozen lake, piece, it, cunning artificer), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lake	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 empty	punct
8	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 snow	case
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hall	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 middle	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lake	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lake	det
15	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lake	amod
16	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 cracked	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cracked	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cracked	aux:pass
20	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lake	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pieces	det
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 pieces	nummod
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cracked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 other	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 other	cc
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 piece	det
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 other	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 other	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 other	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 other	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cracked	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seemed	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 seemed	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seemed	nsubj
37	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cracked	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 work	det
39	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seemed	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 artificer	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 artificer	det
42	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 artificer	compound
43	artificer	artificer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 work	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past		a frozen lake	the middle of the empty endless hall of snow		tree rules
3	crack	past · passive	a frozen lake not said here	lake	a thousand pieces		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	each piece			other property	tree rules
5	seem	past	it	the work of a cunning artificer			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Attribute
6	work		a cunning artificer				nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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