Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 2
There were more than a hundred rooms in it, all as if they had been formed with snow blown together.
Who acts: hundred rooms · What happens: be, form, blow · To what, where: rooms, snow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred rooms), 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 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 6 hundred | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 more | fixed |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 rooms | nummod |
| 7 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rooms | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 formed | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 formed | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 formed | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 formed | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 formed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 formed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 formed | aux:pass |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rooms | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 snow | case |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | obl |
| 20 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 snow | acl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 blown | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | hundred rooms in snow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | rooms = room | with snow | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | blow | participle | snow not said here | together property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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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