Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 99
The snow crackled and the wind whistled around him; it was just the kind of frosty weather a Snow Man might thoroughly enjoy.
Who acts: snow, wind, Snow Man · What happens: crackle, whistle, be, enjoy · To what, where: kind
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 (snow, wind, 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 snow | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crackled | nsubj |
| 3 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whistled | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whistled | nsubj |
| 7 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crackled | conj |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 whistled | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kind | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | cop |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 kind | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crackled | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 weather | case |
| 17 | frosty | frosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weather | amod |
| 18 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Man | det |
| 20 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Man | compound |
| 21 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 enjoy | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 enjoy | aux |
| 23 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 24 enjoy | advmod |
| 24 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kind | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crackled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crackle | past | the snow | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | whistle | past | the wind | around Man | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | wind | the kind | of frosty weather | tree rules | |||
| 4 | enjoy | might | a Snow Man | the kind not said here | thoroughly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus |
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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