Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 5

On the margin of the sandy desert, in a salt plain, that shone like a frozen lake, and was only covered in spots with light drifting sand, a halt was made.

Who acts: that · What happens: shine, freeze, cover, drift, make · To what, where: halt, margin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 margin	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 margin	det
3	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 desert	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 desert	det
6	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 desert	amod
7	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 margin	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plain	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 plain	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 plain	det
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plain	compound
12	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 desert	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shone	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 shone	nsubj
15	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plain	parataxis
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 lake	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lake	det
18	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lake	amod
19	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shone	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 covered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 covered	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 covered	aux:pass
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 covered	advmod
24	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 shone	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 spots	case
26	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 covered	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 light	case
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spots	nmod
29	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 sand	amod
30	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 light	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 margin	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 halt	det
33	halt	halt	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 made	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 made	aux:pass
35	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	that			like a frozen lake	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	cover	past · passive	that not said here			in spots with light and drifting sand	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in spot=Theme
4	drift	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	past · passive		a halt	the margin of the sandy desert		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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