Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 40

Towards morning there was a great fall of snow; the wind drifted it over him, but he still slept on.

Who acts: great fall, wind, Joanna · What happens: be, drift, sleep on · To what, where: fall

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 (great fall, wind, Joanna), 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	Towards	toward	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 morning	compound
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fall	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fall	amod
7	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 snow	case
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 drifted	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drifted	nsubj
13	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 was	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drifted	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drifted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 slept	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 slept	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 slept	nsubj
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 slept	advmod
21	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drifted	conj
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 slept	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a great fall of snow		there	morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drift	past	the wind	fall			over Joanna	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over he=Trajectory
3	sleep on	past	Joanna			still		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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