Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 214

And this thought rolled and grew like a snowball, until it seemed to crush him.

Who acts: thought, it · What happens: roll, grow, seem, crush · To what, where: evil

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, it), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 rolled	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thought	det
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	nsubj
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grew	cc
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 snowball	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snowball	det
9	snowball	snowball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 seemed	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 crush	mark
15	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 crush	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roll	past	this thought			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	this thought not said here		like a snowball	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	crush	to-infinitive		evil		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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