Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 17
The Sunbeams caressed and kissed it, so that it opened altogether, white as snow, and ornamented with green stripes.
Who acts: Sunbeams, snow · What happens: caress, kiss, open, ornament · 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 (Sunbeams, 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 Sunbeams | det |
| 2 | Sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caressed | nsubj |
| 3 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kissed | cc |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caressed | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 opened | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caressed | conj |
| 12 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 11 opened | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 white | punct |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 opened | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 snow | case |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 white | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ornamented | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ornamented | cc |
| 19 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caressed | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 stripes | case |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stripes | amod |
| 22 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ornamented | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past | the Sunbeams | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the Sunbeams not said here | snow | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | past | snow | altogether, white property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ornament | participle | with green stripes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stripe=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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