Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 112

Snow drifts were lying in all the scrolls and on the inscriptions, and the steps were covered with snow as if no one were at home.

Who acts: Snow drifts, one · What happens: lie, cover, be · To what, where: scrolls, steps, home

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow drifts, one), 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	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drifts	compound
2	drifts	drift	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lying	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 scrolls	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 scrolls	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 scrolls	det
8	scrolls	scroll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lying	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 inscriptions	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 inscriptions	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 inscriptions	det
12	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scrolls	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 covered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 covered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 steps	det
16	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 covered	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 covered	aux:pass
18	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lying	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 snow	case
20	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covered	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 home	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 home	mark
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 home	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 home	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covered	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	Snow drifts		all scrolls and the inscriptions		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in scroll=Location
2	cover	past · passive		the steps		with snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme
3	is	past	no one		home		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: «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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