Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 9

Winter came, and the plant was covered with snow, but the snow glittered over it as if it had sunshine beneath as well as above.

Who acts: Winter, snow, leaf · What happens: come, cover, glitter, have · To what, where: plant, leaf, sunshine

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winter, snow, leaf), 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	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 covered	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 covered	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 covered	aux:pass
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glittered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 glittered	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glittered	nsubj
15	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
16	over	over	ADV	_	17 it	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 glittered	obl
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glittered	advcl
22	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
23	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	21 had	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	as	as	ADP	_	24 as	fixed
27	above	above	ADV	_	24 as	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Winter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	past · passive		the plant	with snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with snow=Theme
3	glitter	past	the snow	leaf		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	leaf	sunshine	beneath property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunshine=Patient

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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