Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 106

How pleasant it was out in the forest while the snow lay on the ground, when the hare would run by, yes, and jump over me too, although I did not like it then.

Who acts: place, snow, hare, you, I · What happens: be, lie, run by, jump, not like · To what, where: forest, ground, me, place

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, snow, hare, you), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 pleasant	advmod
2	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 jump	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 forest	cop
5	out	out	ADV	_	8 forest	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pleasant	conj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 lay	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 forest	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 run	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 run	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hare	det
19	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 run	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 run	aux
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 forest	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	21 run	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 yes	punct
24	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	21 run	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 jump	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 jump	cc
27	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	over	over	ADV	_	29 me	advmod
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 jump	obl
30	too	too	ADV	_	27 jump	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 like	punct
32	although	although	SCONJ	_	36 like	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 like	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 like	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 like	advmod
36	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 jump	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 like	obj
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 like	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	place		the forest		out property	tree rules
2	lie	past	the snow		the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	run by	would	the hare					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	jump	imperative	you not said here	me				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not like	past · do-support	I	place		then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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