Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 78

There sat the two grown-up persons; grown-up, and yet children; children at least in heart; and it was summer-time; summer, glorious summer!

Who acts: heart · What happens: sit, grow up, be · To what, where: two grown persons, summer time

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 (heart), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 sat	expl
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 persons	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 persons	nummod
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 persons	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
8	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 grown	punct
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 grown	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 children	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 children	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 children	advmod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 children	punct
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 least	case
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 children	appos
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 heart	case
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 least	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 time	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 time	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 time	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 time	cop
27	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 summer	punct
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 summer	punct
31	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct
33	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 summer	amod
34	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl:unmarked
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the two grown persons	there	summer	children obl; children obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location person=Theme
2	grow up	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow up	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	heart	summer time				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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