Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 110

At last I snowed them up, and they say snow keeps people warm.

Who acts: I, clothes, snow · What happens: snow up, say, keep · To what, where: clothes, last, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, clothes, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snowed	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 snowed	nsubj
4	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snowed	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 snowed	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 snowed	parataxis
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	nsubj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 keeps	obj
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keeps	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 snowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snow up	past	I	clothes	last		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	clothes				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	present	snow	people		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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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