Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 95
The night was long, but did not appear so to the Snow Man, who stood there enjoying his own reflections, and crackling with the cold.
Who acts: night, Snow Man · What happens: be, not appear, stand, enjoy, crackle · To what, where: own reflections
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 (night, Snow Man), 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 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 appear | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 appear | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 appear | advmod |
| 9 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | parataxis |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 Man | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Man | det |
| 13 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Man | compound |
| 14 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 appear | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stood | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 reflections | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reflections | amod |
| 22 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 enjoying | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crackling | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 crackling | cc |
| 25 | crackling | crackle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 appear | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 cold | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cold | det |
| 28 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crackling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the night | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not appear | past · do-support | to the Snow Man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the Snow Man | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | gerund | the Snow Man not said here | Man's own reflections | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reflection=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | crackle | gerund | with the cold | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with cold=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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