Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 140
Let the snow lie warmly upon the tender seed.
Who acts: you, snow · What happens: let, lie · To what, where: tender seed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snow | det |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 5 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 4 lie | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 seed | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seed | det |
| 8 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seed | compound |
| 9 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | the snow | the tender seed | warmly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon seed=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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