Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 72
The snow-flakes became larger and larger, till they appeared like great white chickens.
Who acts: snow flakes, flakes · What happens: become, appear
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 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flakes | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flakes | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snow | punct |
| 4 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 larger | cc |
| 8 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 larger | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 chickens | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chickens | amod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chickens | amod |
| 16 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appeared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the snow flakes | large property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | flakes = flake | like great white chickens | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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