Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 41

It might have been the echo which people heard, or perhaps the words of that wonderful old man, who sat high on a heap of snow, regardless of wind or weather.

Who acts: hill, people, wonderful old man · What happens: be, hear, sit, word · To what, where: echo, heap, wonderful old man

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 (hill, people, wonderful old man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 echo	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 echo	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 echo	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 echo	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 echo	det
6	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 heard	obj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 echo	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 words	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 words	cc
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 words	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 man	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 man	nsubj
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 words	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 man	acl:relcl
23	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 sat	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 heap	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 heap	det
26	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 snow	case
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heap	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wind	punct
30	regardless	regardless	ADV	_	32 wind	advmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 wind	case
32	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 weather	cc
34	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wind	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 echo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	might · perfect	hill	the echo			tree rules
2	hear	past	people	the echo			tree rules
3	sit	past	wonderful old man		a heap of snow	of wind or weather; high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heap=Location
4	word			wonderful old man			nom word «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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