Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 8

In the midst of its empty, endless hall of snow was a frozen lake, broken on its surface into a thousand forms; each piece resembled another, from being in itself perfect as a work of art, and in the centre of this lake sat the Snow Queen, when she was at home.

Who acts: piece, flame, art · What happens: freeze, be, break, resemble, sit, work · To what, where: frozen lake, midst, surface, another, Snow Queen, centre

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 (piece, flame, art), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 midst	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midst	det
3	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lake	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 hall	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hall	nmod:poss
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 empty	punct
8	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 midst	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 snow	case
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hall	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lake	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lake	det
14	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lake	amod
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 broken	punct
17	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lake	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 surface	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 surface	nmod:poss
20	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 broken	obl
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 forms	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thousand	det
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 forms	nummod
24	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 broken	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 resembled	punct
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 resembled	nsubj
28	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lake	parataxis
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 resembled	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 perfect	punct
31	from	from	ADP	_	35 perfect	case
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 perfect	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 itself	case
34	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 being	obl
35	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 resembled	conj
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 work	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 work	det
38	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 perfect	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 art	case
40	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 work	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sat	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sat	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 centre	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 centre	det
45	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sat	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 lake	case
47	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 lake	det
48	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 centre	nmod
49	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 resembled	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Queen	det
51	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Queen	compound
52	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 sat	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 home	punct
54	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 home	advmod
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 home	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 home	cop
57	at	at	ADP	_	58 home	case
58	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Queen	appos
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past		a frozen lake	the midst of midst's empty endless hall of snow		tree rules
3	break	participle		a frozen lake not said here	lake's surface	into thousand forms	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Location
4	resemble	past	each piece	another			tree rules
5	is	gerund	each piece not said here			as a work of art; perfect property	tree rules
6	sit	past	each piece not said here	the Snow Queen	the centre of this lake		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme in centre=Location
7	is	past	flame		home		tree rules
8	work		art				nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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