Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 3
It grew thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels, that grew more and more when they touched the earth.
Who acts: cold, that, angels · What happens: grow, take, touch, form · To what, where: form, earth, little angels
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 (cold, that, angels), 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 | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thicker | cc |
| 5 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 thicker | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 angels | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 angels | amod |
| 13 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 form | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 grew | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 more | conj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 touched | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 touched | nsubj |
| 22 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grew | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 touched | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | cold | thick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | cold not said here | the form of little angels | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | that | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | touch | past | angels = angel | the earth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | form | little angels | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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