Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 4

The snow lay piled up in great heaps, and of these the sailors made huts, in the form of bee-hives, some of them as large and spacious as one of the "Huns' graves," and others only containing room enough to hold three or four men.

Who acts: snow, sailors · What happens: lie, pile up, make, contain, hold, form · To what, where: great heaps, huts, form, room, three men, bee hives

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, sailors), 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	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lay	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 piled	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 heaps	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heaps	amod
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 piled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 these	case
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 sailors	det
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sailors	det
14	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
16	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 form	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 form	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 form	det
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 hives	case
22	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hives	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 bee	punct
24	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 form	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 large	punct
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 large	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 some	nmod
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 large	case
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 spacious	cc
32	spacious	spacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 large	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 one	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 large	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	40 graves	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 graves	det
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 graves	punct
38	Huns	Hun	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 graves	nmod:poss
39	'	's	PART	_	38 Huns	case
40	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 graves	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 graves	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 others	cc
44	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 graves	conj
45	only	only	ADV	_	46 containing	advmod
46	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 large	advcl
47	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 containing	obj
48	enough	enough	ADV	_	46 containing	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 hold	mark
50	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 containing	advcl
51	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 men	nummod
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 four	cc
53	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 three	conj
54	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hold	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the snow				tree rules
2	pile up	participle	the snow not said here		great heaps		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in heap=Destination
3	make	past	this sailors	huts	the form of bee hives		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product
4	contain	gerund	the snow not said here	room		enough property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot room=Theme
5	hold	to-infinitive	the snow not said here	three men			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
6	form			bee hives			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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