Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 11

The snow still lay upon the ground, and there was a coat of ice on the water every night.

Who acts: snow · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: ground, coat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 coat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 was	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 coat	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coat	det
13	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 ice	case
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coat	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ice	nmod
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the snow			the ground	still; night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location
2	is a	past		a coat				of ice on the water	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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