Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 26

This snow-flake grew larger and larger, till at last it became the figure of a woman, dressed in garments of white gauze, which looked like millions of starry snow-flakes linked together.

Who acts: snow flake, rest, white gauze · What happens: grow, become, dress, look, link, figure · To what, where: figure, last, garments, starry snow flakes, woman

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 (snow flake, rest, white gauze), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 flake	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flake	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
4	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 larger	cc
8	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 larger	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 became	mark
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 became	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 figure	det
16	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 woman	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 figure	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dressed	punct
21	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 became	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 garments	case
23	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dressed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 gauze	case
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gauze	amod
26	gauze	gauze	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 garments	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looked	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gauze	acl:relcl
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 millions	case
31	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 looked	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 flakes	case
33	starry	starry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 flakes	amod
34	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flakes	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 snow	punct
36	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 millions	nmod
37	linked	link	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 flakes	acl
38	together	together	ADV	_	37 linked	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	this snow flake			large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	rest	the figure of a woman	last		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	dress	participle	rest not said here		garments of white gauze		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	white gauze			like millions of starry snow flakes	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	link	participle		starry snow flakes not said here		together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	figure			a woman			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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