Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 25

A few flakes of snow were falling, and one of them, rather larger than the rest, alighted on the edge of one of the flower boxes.

Who acts: few flakes · What happens: fall, alight · To what, where: rest, edge

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 (few flakes), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flakes	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flakes	amod
3	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 falling	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 snow	case
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flakes	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 falling	aux
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 larger	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 larger	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 larger	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 larger	punct
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	15 larger	advmod
15	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 falling	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 rest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rest	det
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 larger	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 alighted	punct
20	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rest	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 edge	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 edge	det
23	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 alighted	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 edge	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 boxes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boxes	det
28	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boxes	compound
29	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	a few flakes of snow						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	alight	participle		the rest not said here		the edge of one of the flower boxes			tree rules

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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