Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 199

The frost had been so strong, and was still so strong, that the fallen snow had become a hard mass, and one could walk upon it.

Who acts: frost, fallen snow, one · What happens: be, fall, become, walk · To what, where: hard mass, snow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, fallen snow, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frost	det
2	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 strong	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strong	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 strong	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strong	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	12 strong	advmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 strong	advmod
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strong	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 become	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 become	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snow	det
16	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 snow	amod
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 strong	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 mass	det
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mass	amod
22	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 walk	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 walk	cc
25	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walk	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 walk	aux
27	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 strong	parataxis
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walk	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the frost				strong property	tree rules
2	is	past				still	strong property	tree rules
3	fall	participle						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past · perfect	the fallen snow	a hard mass				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	walk	could	one		snow			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/199/