Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 5

Everything out-of-doors was covered with ice and snow, and the wind blew so that it cut the face.

Who acts: wind · What happens: cover, blow, cut · To what, where: Everything, face

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 covered	nsubj:pass
2	out	out	ADP	_	6 doors	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 out	punct
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 doors	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
6	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Everything	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 covered	aux:pass
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 snow	cc
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ice	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blew	nsubj
17	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 covered	conj
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 cut	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cut	nsubj
21	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blew	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 face	det
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		Everything	with ice and snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ice=Theme
2	blow	past	the wind			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	cut	past	wind	the face		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material face=Product

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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