Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 33

She ran forwards as quickly as she could, when a whole regiment of snow-flakes came round her; they did not, however, fall from the sky, which was quite clear and glittering with the northern lights.

Who acts: Gerda, whole regiment, flakes · What happens: run, come, not do, fall, be, glitter · To what, where: sky

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, whole regiment, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 quickly	advmod
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 regiment	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 regiment	amod
13	regiment	regiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 flakes	case
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flakes	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 snow	punct
17	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 regiment	nmod
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
19	round	round	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fall	advcl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 did	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fall	punct
26	however	however	ADV	_	28 fall	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 however	punct
28	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	parataxis
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 sky	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sky	det
31	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fall	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clear	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 clear	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 clear	cop
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 clear	advmod
36	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fall	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 glittering	cc
38	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 clear	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	42 lights	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 lights	det
41	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lights	amod
42	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 glittering	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Gerda		forwards, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a whole regiment of snow flakes		round Gerda	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round she=Initial_Location
3	not do	past	flakes = flake			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	infinitive		the sky	however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location
5	is	past			clear property	tree rules
6	glitter	gerund			with the northern lights	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=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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