Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 34
Here there was bitter cold and snow-storms, while in Spain there was burning sunshine and oppressive heat.
Who acts: bitter cold snow storms · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: sunshine, Spain
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 (bitter cold snow storms), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 storms | amod |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 storms | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 storms | cc |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 storms | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 snow | punct |
| 9 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 was | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burning | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 burning | mark |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Spain | case |
| 13 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 burning | obl |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 burning | aux |
| 16 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 was | advcl |
| 17 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burning | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heat | cc |
| 19 | oppressive | oppressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heat | amod |
| 20 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sunshine | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | bitter cold snow storms | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | past · progressive | bitter cold snow storms not said here | sunshine and oppressive heat | Spain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme |
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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