Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 56

One winter's day, when it snowed, he brought out a burning-glass, then he held out the tail of his blue coat, and let the snow-flakes fall upon it. "

Who acts: it, glass, snow flakes · What happens: snow, bring out, hold out, let, fall · To what, where: burning glass, tail, coat

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 (it, glass, snow 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 winter	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snowed	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 snowed	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 snowed	nsubj
8	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	nsubj
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 snowed	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 brought	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 glass	det
14	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glass	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 burning	punct
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 held	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	nsubj
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 snowed	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 held	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tail	det
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 held	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 coat	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 coat	nmod:poss
26	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coat	amod
27	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tail	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 snowed	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flakes	det
32	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flakes	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 snow	punct
34	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fall	nsubj
35	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 let	xcomp
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fall	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	snow	past	it			day	tree rules
2	bring out	past	glass	a burning glass			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
3	hold out	past	glass	the tail of glass's blue coat		then	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
4	let	infinitive					tree rules
5	fall	present	the snow flakes		coat		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location

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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