Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 8

Sometimes, in winter, when the snow lay white and glittering on the ground, a hare would come springing along, and jump right over the little tree; and then how mortified it would feel!

Who acts: snow, hare · What happens: lie, glitter, come, spring, jump, mortify · To what, where: ground, little tree

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 (snow, hare), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 lay	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 winter	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 winter	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lay	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lay	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glittering	cc
12	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lay	conj
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 glittering	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hare	det
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lay	conj
21	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 come	xcomp
22	along	along	ADV	_	21 springing	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 jump	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 jump	cc
25	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
26	right	right	ADV	_	25 jump	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	30 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tree	amod
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 jump	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 mortified	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 mortified	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 mortified	advmod
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 mortified	advmod
35	mortified	mortify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lay	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 feel	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 feel	aux
38	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 mortified	xcomp
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the snow		winter	sometimes, white property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	glitter	gerund	the snow not said here	the ground			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
3	come	would	a hare				tree rules
4	spring	gerund	a hare not said here			along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	jump	infinitive	a hare not said here	the little tree		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory
6	mortify	participle	the snow not said here		then		tree rules
7	feel	would	hare				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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