Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 13
In vain they reminded him that winter was coming, and that the snow had already fallen on the mountains.
Who acts: words, winter, snow · What happens: remind, come, fall · To what, where: man, vain, mountains
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, winter, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reminded | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reminded | nsubj |
| 4 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reminded | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 coming | mark |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | aux |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reminded | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fallen | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fallen | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 fallen | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fallen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fallen | aux |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 fallen | advmod |
| 17 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 reminded | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 mountains | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mountains | det |
| 20 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fallen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | words = word | man | vain | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | the snow | the mountains | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location |
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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