Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 1

Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening--the last evening of the year.

Who acts: it, Most · What happens: be, snow

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Most), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 snowed	nsubj
2	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	3 cold	advmod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Most	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cold	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 snowed	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 snowed	nsubj
8	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dark	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 dark	advmod
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 dark	advmod
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snowed	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 evening	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 evening	cc
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dark	conj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 evening	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 evening	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 evening	amod
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 evening	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 year	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 evening	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 snowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	cold, terribly property	tree rules
2	snow	past	Most		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	is	past		dark, nearly property	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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