Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 59
There is not a single fault in it, and the snow-flakes are quite perfect till they begin to melt."
Who acts: single fault, snow flakes, flakes · What happens: be, begin, melt
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 (single fault, snow flakes, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fault | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fault | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fault | amod |
| 6 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fault | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 perfect | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 perfect | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flakes | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flakes | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 snow | punct |
| 14 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 perfect | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 perfect | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 perfect | advmod |
| 17 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 begin | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 begin | nsubj |
| 20 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 perfect | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 melt | mark |
| 22 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 begin | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a single fault in snow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the snow flakes | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | flakes = flake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | melt | to-infinitive | flakes = flake not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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