Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 96
In the morning, the window-panes of the housekeeper's room were covered with ice.
What happens: cover · To what, where: window panes
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 panes | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 panes | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 window | punct |
| 8 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 housekeeper | det |
| 11 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 room | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 housekeeper | case |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 panes | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 covered | aux:pass |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 ice | case |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the window panes of the housekeeper's room | morning | with ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ice=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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