Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 19

Often at midnight she flies through the streets of the town, and looks in at the windows, then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful shapes, that look like flowers and castles."

Who acts: grandmother, ice, wonderful shapes · What happens: fly, look, freeze · To what, where: streets, panes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, ice, wonderful shapes), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	3 midnight	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flies	nsubj
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 streets	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 streets	det
8	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flies	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 streets	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looks	cc
14	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flies	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 windows	case
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 windows	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 windows	det
18	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looks	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 freezes	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 freezes	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ice	det
22	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 freezes	nsubj
23	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flies	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 panes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 panes	det
26	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 freezes	obl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 shapes	case
28	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shapes	amod
29	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 freezes	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 look	nsubj
32	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 shapes	acl:relcl
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 flowers	case
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 look	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 castles	cc
36	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 flowers	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flies	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	grandmother	the streets of the town	midnight		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through street=Location
2	look	present	grandmother not said here			in the windows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in window=Theme
3	freeze	present	the ice	the panes	then	into wonderful shapes	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	look	present	wonderful shapes			like flowers and castles	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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