Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 45

Flowers and leaves had fallen, but there stood the tree covered with hoar frost, looking like a single huge branch of coral, and the moon shone clear and large among the twigs, unchanged in its changings, as it was when George divided his bread and butter with little Emily.

Who acts: Flowers, moon · What happens: fall, stand, cover, look, shine, be · To what, where: tree, twigs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flowers, moon), 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	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fallen	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 leaves	cc
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flowers	conj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	aux
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 stood	cc
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stood	advmod
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obj
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tree	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 frost	case
14	hoar	hoar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 frost	amod
15	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 covered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looking	punct
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stood	advcl
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 branch	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 branch	det
20	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 branch	amod
21	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 branch	amod
22	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looking	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 coral	case
24	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 branch	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shone	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shone	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 moon	det
28	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shone	nsubj
29	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	parataxis
30	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shone	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 large	cc
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 clear	conj
33	among	among	ADP	_	35 twigs	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 twigs	det
35	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 shone	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 unchanged	punct
37	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 twigs	amod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 changings	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 changings	nmod:poss
40	changings	changing	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 unchanged	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 divided	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 divided	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 divided	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 divided	cop
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 divided	advmod
46	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 divided	nsubj
47	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 shone	conj
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 bread	nmod:poss
49	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 divided	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 butter	cc
51	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bread	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 Emily	case
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Emily	amod
54	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 divided	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	Flowers and leaves				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	Flowers and leaves not said here	the tree	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
3	cover	participle		the tree not said here		with hoar frost	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with frost=Theme
4	look	gerund	Flowers and leaves not said here			like a single huge branch of coral	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	shine	past	the moon		the twigs	clear property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among twig=Location
6	is	past	moon			with little Emily; divide property	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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