Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 146

And with white locks and snowy beard, cold, bent, and hoary, but strong as the wintry storm, and firm as the ice, old Winter sat on the snowdrift-covered hill, looking towards the south, where Winter had sat before, and gazed.

Who acts: Winter · What happens: sit, cover, look, gaze · To what, where: covered hill

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 (Winter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 locks	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 locks	case
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 locks	amod
4	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beard	cc
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locks	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cold	punct
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bent	punct
11	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cold	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hoary	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hoary	cc
14	hoary	hoary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cold	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 strong	cc
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 storm	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 storm	det
20	wintry	wintry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 storm	amod
21	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strong	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 firm	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 firm	cc
24	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 strong	parataxis
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 ice	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ice	det
27	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 firm	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 old	punct
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 firm	parataxis
30	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sat	nsubj
31	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 old	acl:relcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	37 hill	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hill	det
34	snowdrift	snowdrift	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 covered	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 snowdrift	punct
36	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 hill	amod
37	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sat	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 looking	punct
39	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sat	advcl
40	towards	towards	ADP	_	42 south	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 south	det
42	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 looking	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sat	punct
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 sat	advmod
45	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 sat	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 sat	aux
47	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 looking	advcl
48	before	before	ADV	_	47 sat	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 gazed	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 gazed	cc
51	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sat	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 locks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Winter	the covered hill		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
2	cover	participle				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	Winter not said here		towards the south	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards south=Theme
4	sit	past · perfect	Winter		before property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gaze	past	Winter not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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