Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 138

It was not very large, and the floor was of lime; but when he danced with his bride on the lime-covered floor, it was to him white and shining, and from every stone in the wall flowers seemed to spring forth and decorate the room as with the richest tapestry.

Who acts: house, floor, street · What happens: not be, be, dance, cover, shine, seem · To what, where: covered floor, stone, room

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 (house, floor, street), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 large	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 large	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 large	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 large	advmod
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lime	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lime	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lime	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lime	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 lime	case
12	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 large	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 white	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 white	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 danced	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 danced	nsubj
17	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 white	advcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 bride	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bride	nmod:poss
20	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 danced	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	26 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 floor	det
23	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 covered	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 lime	punct
25	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 floor	amod
26	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 danced	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 danced	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 white	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 white	cop
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	obl
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 large	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 shining	cc
34	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 white	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 seemed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 seemed	cc
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 stone	case
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 stone	det
39	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 seemed	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 flowers	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 flowers	det
42	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flowers	compound
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 stone	nmod
44	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 large	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 spring	mark
46	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 seemed	xcomp
47	forth	forth	ADV	_	46 spring	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 decorate	cc
49	decorate	decorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 spring	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 room	det
51	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 decorate	obj
52	as	as	ADP	_	56 tapestry	case
53	with	with	ADP	_	56 tapestry	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 tapestry	det
55	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	56 tapestry	amod
56	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 decorate	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	house			large property	tree rules
2	is	past	the floor			of lime	tree rules
3	dance	past	street		the covered floor	with street's bride	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
4	cover	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	house			white property	tree rules
6	shine	gerund	house not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seem	past	house not said here		every stone in the wall flowers		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	spring	to-infinitive	house not said here			forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	decorate	infinitive	house not said here	the room		as the richest tapestry	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination

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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