Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 60

It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window.

Who acts: grief, broad flakes, queen · What happens: be, fall around, sit, work · To what, where: middle

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grief, broad flakes, queen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 middle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 middle	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 middle	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 falling	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 falling	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flakes	det
10	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flakes	amod
11	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 falling	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 snow	case
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flakes	nmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 falling	aux
15	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 middle	acl
16	around	around	ADV	_	15 falling	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 queen	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 queen	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 queen	det
20	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 queen	nmod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thousand	amod
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 miles	nummod
26	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 off	obl:unmarked
27	off	off	ADV	_	28 sat	advmod
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 falling	advcl
29	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 sat	xcomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 window	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 window	nmod:poss
32	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 working	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 middle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	grief	the middle	winter		tree rules
2	fall around	past · progressive	the broad flakes of snow			around property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	the queen of a country			off property	tree rules
4	work	gerund	the queen of a country not said here			at queen's window	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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