Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 22

I saw it running itself a little while ago, and now it has come creeping up from the other side.

Who acts: I, wow · What happens: see, run, come, creep up · To what, where: wow, other side

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 (I, wow), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 saw	xcomp
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 running	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 while	amod
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 running	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 come	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 saw	conj
16	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 come	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 creeping	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 creeping	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	wow				tree rules
2	run	gerund	wow not said here	wow			ago property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory
3	come	present · perfect	wow			now		tree rules
4	creep up	gerund	wow not said here		the other side			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from side=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.

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