Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 11

At times the snow would be piled so high around our hut as almost to hide it, and then my mother appeared most cheerful.

Who acts: mother · What happens: pile, hide, appear · To what, where: snow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 times	case
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 piled	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piled	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 piled	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 piled	aux:pass
7	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piled	xcomp
10	around	around	ADP	_	12 hut	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hut	nmod:poss
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 high	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 hide	mark
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 hide	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hide	mark
16	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 piled	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hide	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 appeared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 appeared	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 appeared	advmod
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 appeared	nsubj
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 piled	conj
24	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 cheerful	advmod
25	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 appeared	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 piled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pile	would · passive		the snow	time	high property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
2	hide	to-infinitive		snow		almost property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	appear	past	my mother		then	cheerful property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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