Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 97
They were the most beautiful ice-flowers any Snow Man could desire, but they concealed the stove.
Who acts: panes, Snow Man · What happens: be, desire, conceal · To what, where: beautiful ice flowers, stove
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 (panes, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flowers | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flowers | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flowers | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flowers | amod |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowers | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ice | punct |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 Man | det |
| 10 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Man | compound |
| 11 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 desire | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 desire | aux |
| 13 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 concealed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 concealed | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 concealed | nsubj |
| 17 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flowers | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stove | det |
| 19 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 concealed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flowers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | panes = pane | the beautiful ice flowers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | could | any Snow Man | the beautiful ice flowers not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conceal | past | panes = pane | the stove | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stove=Patient |
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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