Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 67

I made the snowflakes whirl till the snow lay like a great lake round the ship, and drifted over it.

Who acts: I, snowflakes, snow · What happens: make, whirl, lie, drift · To what, where: snow

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, snowflakes, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snowflakes	det
4	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 whirl	nsubj
5	whirl	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 lay	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	advcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 lake	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lake	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	amod
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 ship	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ship	det
16	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lake	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drifted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drifted	cc
19	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drifted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	I			tree rules
2	whirl	present	the snowflakes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	past	the snow		like a great lake round the ship	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drift	past	I not said here	snow		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory

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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