Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 14

And the Flower stirred and stretched itself within the thin rind which the water had softened from without, and the snow and the earth had warmed, and the Sunbeam had knocked at; and it shot forth under the snow with a greenish-white blossom on a green stalk, with narrow thick leaves, which seemed to want to protect it.

Who acts: Flower, snow, narrow thick leaves · What happens: stir, stretch, soften, warm, knock, shoot · To what, where: stirring, thin rind, snow, Sunbeam

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 (Flower, snow, narrow thick leaves), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 stirred	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Flower	det
3	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stirred	nsubj
4	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stretched	cc
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stirred	conj
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stretched	obj
8	within	within	ADP	_	11 rind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rind	det
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rind	amod
11	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 softened	nsubj:pass
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 softened	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 softened	aux
16	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 rind	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	16 softened	obl
18	without	without	ADP	_	17 from	fixed
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 warmed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 warmed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snow	det
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 warmed	nsubj:pass
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 earth	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 snow	conj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 warmed	aux
27	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stirred	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knocked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 knocked	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sunbeam	det
31	Sunbeam	Sunbeam	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 knocked	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 knocked	aux
33	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 warmed	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	33 knocked	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 shot	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 shot	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 shot	nsubj
38	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stirred	conj
39	forth	forth	ADV	_	38 shot	advmod
40	under	under	ADP	_	42 snow	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 snow	det
42	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shot	obl
43	with	with	ADP	_	48 blossom	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 blossom	det
45	greenish	greenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 white	amod
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 greenish	punct
47	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 blossom	amod
48	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shot	obl
49	on	on	ADP	_	52 stalk	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 stalk	det
51	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 stalk	amod
52	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shot	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 leaves	punct
54	with	with	ADP	_	57 leaves	case
55	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 leaves	amod
56	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 leaves	amod
57	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 shot	parataxis
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 seemed	punct
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 seemed	nsubj
60	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 leaves	acl:relcl
61	to	to	PART	_	62 want	mark
62	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 seemed	xcomp
63	to	to	PART	_	64 protect	mark
64	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 want	xcomp
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 protect	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stir	past	the Flower				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	stretch	past	the Flower not said here	stirring		within the thin rind	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
3	soften	past · perfect · passive		the thin rind			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	warm	past · perfect · passive		the snow and the earth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	knock	past · perfect · passive		the Sunbeam			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
6	shoot	past	snow		the snow	with a white blossom; on a green stalk; forth property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent under snow=Destination
7	seem	past	narrow thick leaves				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	want	to-infinitive	narrow thick leaves not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	protect not said to happen	to-infinitive	narrow thick leaves not said here	stirring			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/177/14/