Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 50
Winter came; the water was frozen, and everything seemed buried in a cold grave.
Who acts: Winter · What happens: come, freeze, bury · To what, where: water, everything, cold grave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winter), 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 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 frozen | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frozen | aux:pass |
| 7 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 buried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 buried | cc |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 buried | aux:pass |
| 12 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 grave | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 grave | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grave | amod |
| 16 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | freeze | past · passive | the water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | everything | a cold grave | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |
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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