Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 30

Towards morning, a thick fog covered the whole country round, and a keen wind arose, so that the cold seemed to freeze one's bones; but when the sun rose, the sight was splendid.

Who acts: thick fog, keen wind, cold, sun, sight · What happens: cover, arise, seem, freeze, rise, be · To what, where: whole country, one

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 (thick fog, keen wind, cold, sun), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 morning	compound
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fog	det
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fog	amod
6	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	nsubj
7	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obj
11	round	round	ADV	_	7 covered	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arose	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 arose	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wind	det
15	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wind	amod
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arose	nsubj
17	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 seemed	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 seemed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cold	det
22	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 arose	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 freeze	mark
25	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seemed	xcomp
26	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 freeze	obj
27	's	's	PART	_	26 one	case
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 freeze	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 rose	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 rose	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 rose	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun	det
33	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rose	nsubj
34	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 splendid	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sight	det
37	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 splendid	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 splendid	cop
39	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rose	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	a thick fog	the whole country	morning	round property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Destination
2	arise	past	a keen wind				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	the cold				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	freeze	to-infinitive	the cold not said here	one			tree rules
5	rise	past	the sun				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the sight			splendid property	tree rules

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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