Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 34
The snow-flakes ran along the ground, and the nearer they came to her, the larger they appeared.
Who acts: snow flakes, flakes · What happens: run, come, appear · To what, where: ground, Gerda
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 (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 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nearer | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nearer | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nearer | det |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nearer | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 larger | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 larger | det |
| 19 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 nearer | conj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 appeared | nsubj |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 larger | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the snow flakes | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | flakes = flake | Gerda | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | flakes = flake | 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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