Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 103
And the weather did change; it began to thaw.
Who acts: weather · What happens: change, begin, thaw
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather), 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 | _ | 5 change | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weather | det |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 change | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | aux |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 thaw | mark |
| 10 | thaw | thaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · do-support | the weather | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | weather | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | thaw | to-infinitive | weather not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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