Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 194
The spring flood was lifting the ice covering, which brake into a thousand pieces.
Who acts: spring flood, ice · What happens: lift, cover, break · To what, where: ice, thousand pieces
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 (spring flood, ice), 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 | 3 flood | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flood | compound |
| 3 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifting | aux |
| 5 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifting | obj |
| 8 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ice | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brake | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brake | nsubj |
| 11 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 covering | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pieces | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thousand | det |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pieces | nummod |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brake | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past · progressive | the spring flood | the ice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | gerund | the ice not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | break | present | into thousand pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
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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