Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 49

I fancy that Death, looking back upon the monument, gave him a single snow-flake as provision, a snow-flake that never melts, and this flake floated over his royal head, like a white butterfly, into the land of eternity.

Who acts: I, snow flake, flake · What happens: fancy, look back, give, not melt, float · To what, where: Death, single snow flake, royal head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, snow flake, flake), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fancy	nsubj
2	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 Death	mark
4	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fancy	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 monument	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monument	det
10	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fancy	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flake	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flake	amod
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flake	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 snow	punct
18	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 provision	case
20	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flake	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flake	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 flake	det
23	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flake	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 snow	punct
25	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flake	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 melts	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 melts	advmod
28	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 flake	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 floated	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 floated	cc
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 flake	det
32	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floated	nsubj
33	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
34	over	over	ADP	_	37 head	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
36	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 head	amod
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floated	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 butterfly	punct
39	like	like	ADP	_	42 butterfly	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 butterfly	det
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 butterfly	amod
42	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floated	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 land	punct
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 land	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 land	det
46	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 floated	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 eternity	case
48	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 land	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fancy	present	I	Death				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	look back	gerund	I not said here				upon the monument	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon monument=Theme
3	give	past		a single snow flake and a snow flake	death		as provision	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient flake=Theme
4	not melt	present	a snow flake					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	float	past	this flake			provision's royal head	like a white butterfly; into the land of eternity	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over head=Source into land=Trajectory

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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