Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 26

There it stood, so delicate and so easily broken, and yet so strong in its young beauty; it stood there in its white dress with the green stripes, and made a summer.

Who acts: ray · What happens: stand, break, make · To what, where: white dress

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 (ray), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stood	expl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 delicate	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 delicate	advmod
6	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 broken	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 easily	advmod
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 broken	advmod
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 delicate	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strong	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 strong	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 beauty	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 beauty	nmod:poss
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beauty	amod
19	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 strong	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 stood	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 dress	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dress	nmod:poss
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dress	amod
27	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 stripes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stripes	det
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stripes	amod
31	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stood	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 summer	det
36	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	ray	there		delicate property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	participle	ray not said here			easily property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	stand	past	ray	ray's white dress; there		with the green stripes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dress=Location
4	make	past	ray not said here		summer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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