Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 126

And all the trees were covered with hoar-frost; they looked like white corals; the snow crackled under foot, as if one had new boots on; and one falling star after the other was seen in the sky.

Who acts: children, snow, one · What happens: cover, look, crackle, have, fall, see · To what, where: trees, foot, new boots, one falling star, sky

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, snow, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 covered	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 trees	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 frost	case
8	hoar	hoar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frost	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 hoar	punct
10	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	parataxis
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 corals	case
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 corals	amod
16	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looked	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 crackled	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 snow	det
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crackled	nsubj
20	crackled	crackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	conj
21	under	under	ADP	_	22 foot	case
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crackled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
26	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 crackled	conj
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boots	amod
29	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	27 had	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 seen	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 seen	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 star	nummod
34	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 star	amod
35	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seen	nsubj
36	after	after	ADP	_	38 other	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 star	nmod
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 seen	aux:pass
40	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 covered	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 sky	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sky	det
43	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seen	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		all trees		with hoar frost	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with frost=Theme
2	look	past	children = child			like white corals	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	crackle	past	the snow		foot		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	one	new boots			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
5	fall	gerund					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	past · passive		one falling star after the other	the sky		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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