Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 59
But the snow on the fields and the hills did not glitter as before.
Who acts: snow · What happens: not glitter
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 glitter | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snow | det |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glitter | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 snow | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hills | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fields | conj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glitter | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 glitter | advmod |
| 12 | glitter | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 before | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 glitter | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 glitter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not glitter | past · do-support | the snow on the fields and the hills | before property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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