Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 37

Some were like great porcupines, others like twisted serpents with their heads stretching out, and some few were like little fat bears with their hair bristled; but all were dazzlingly white, and all were living snow-flakes.

Who acts: heads, few, all · What happens: be, stretch out, bristle · To what, where: hair, living snow flakes

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 (heads, few, all), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 porcupines	det
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 porcupines	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 porcupines	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 porcupines	amod
5	porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 others	punct
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 porcupines	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 serpents	case
9	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 serpents	amod
10	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 others	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 heads	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heads	nmod:poss
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 serpents	nmod
14	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 heads	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 stretching	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bears	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bears	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 few	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bears	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bears	cop
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 bears	case
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bears	amod
23	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bears	compound
24	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 porcupines	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 hair	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bears	nmod
28	bristled	bristle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hair	acl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 white	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 white	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 white	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 white	cop
33	dazzlingly	dazzlingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 white	amod
34	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 porcupines	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flakes	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flakes	cc
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 flakes	det
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 flakes	cop
39	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 flakes	amod
40	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flakes	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 snow	punct
42	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 white	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			like some great porcupines and others like twisted serpents with flakes's heads and little fat bears	tree rules
2	stretch out	gerund	flakes's heads not said here			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	some few		like little fat bears; with flakes's hair	tree rules
4	bristle	participle		flakes's hair not said here		vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
5	is	past	all		white property	tree rules
6	is a	past		all living snow flakes		tree rules

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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