Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 43

The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.

Who acts: violets, I · What happens: exhale, press, cover, heat, make · To what, where: sweet breath, made peep holes, windowpanes, copper coin

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violets, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 violets	det
2	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 exhaled	nsubj
3	exhaled	exhale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breath	nmod:poss
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breath	amod
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exhaled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pressed	punct
8	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	10 pressed	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 pressed	nsubj
10	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exhaled	parataxis
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 windowpanes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 windowpanes	det
13	windowpanes	windowpane	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pressed	obl
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 windowpanes	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 work	case
16	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 work	amod
17	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 work	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 frost	punct
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coin	det
21	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coin	compound
22	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 work	conj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 heated	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heated	aux
25	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 coin	acl:relcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 stove	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stove	det
28	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heated	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 holes	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 holes	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 made	advmod
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 holes	amod
33	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 holes	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 peep	punct
35	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pressed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 exhaled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exhale	past	the violets	violets's sweet breath		vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	press	past	I	made peep holes	against the windowpanes	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against windowpane=Theme
3	cover	participle		the windowpanes not said here	with fantastic frost work and the copper coin	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with work=Theme
4	heat	past · perfect	I	the copper coin not said here	on the stove	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent coin=Patient on stove=Instrument
5	make	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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