Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 32

Snow-storms swept over land and sea, and there was difficulty in getting from one place to another.

Who acts: Snow storms, difficulty · What happens: sweep, be, get · To what, where: land, difficulty, one place

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (Snow storms, difficulty), 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	3 storms	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Snow	punct
3	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swept	nsubj
4	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swept	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sea	cc
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 difficulty	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 was	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 difficulty	cop
13	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swept	obl
14	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 getting	mark
15	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 difficulty	acl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 place	nummod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 getting	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 place	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sweep	past	Snow storms		land and sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory
2	is a	past		difficulty		tree rules
3	get	gerund	difficulty not said here		one place to another	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Destination

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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