Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 34
The birch, waving in the wind, looked full of life, like trees in summer; and its appearance was wondrously beautiful.
Who acts: birch, appearance · What happens: wave, look, be
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 (birch, appearance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birch | det |
| 2 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waving | punct |
| 4 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 birch | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waving | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 birch | punct |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trees | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looked | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 summer | case |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trees | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 beautiful | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 beautiful | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 beautiful | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 beautiful | cop |
| 23 | wondrously | wondrously | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | gerund | the birch not said here | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the birch | like trees in summer; full property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | birch's appearance | beautiful, wondrously 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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