Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 90

The winter was very hard; the ponds were covered with ice, and there was very little food for either the beasts of the field or the birds of the air.

Who acts: winter, little food · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: ponds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, little food), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winter	det
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ponds	det
8	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	aux:pass
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hard	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 ice	case
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 was	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	parataxis
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 little	advmod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 food	amod
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 beasts	case
21	either	either	CCONJ	_	23 beasts	cc:preconj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beasts	det
23	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 food	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 field	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 field	det
26	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beasts	nmod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 birds	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 birds	det
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 field	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 birds	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the winter			hard property	tree rules
2	cover	past · passive		the ponds		with ice	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ice=Theme
3	be	past	little food for the beasts of the field or the birds of the air		there		vn exist-47.1 «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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