Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 15

The snow was cold, but was pierced by the Sunbeam, therefore it was easy to get through it, and now the Sunbeam came with greater strength than before.

Who acts: snow, Sunbeam · What happens: be, pierce, get, come · To what, where: snow

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, Sunbeam), 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 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pierced	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 pierced	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pierced	aux:pass
8	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cold	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 Sunbeam	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sunbeam	det
11	Sunbeam	Sunbeam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pierced	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 easy	punct
13	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 easy	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 easy	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 easy	cop
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pierced	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 easy	csubj
19	through	through	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 came	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sunbeam	det
25	Sunbeam	Sunbeam	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 strength	case
28	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 strength	amod
29	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 before	case
31	before	before	ADV	_	26 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the snow			cold property	tree rules
2	pierce	past · passive	the Sunbeam				vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Sunbeam not said here			easy, therefore property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive		snow			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Destination
5	come	past	the Sunbeam		now	with greater strength	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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