Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 64

Some newly fallen snow concealed a cleft which, though it did not extend to the foaming waters in the depths beneath, was still much deeper than the height of a man.

Who acts: fallen snow, snow · What happens: fall, conceal, not extend, be · To what, where: cleft, foaming waters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fallen snow, snow), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 snow	det
2	newly	newly	ADV	_	3 fallen	advmod
3	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concealed	nsubj
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cleft	det
7	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concealed	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cleft	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 extend	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 extend	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 extend	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 extend	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 extend	advmod
14	extend	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 concealed	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 waters	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 waters	det
17	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waters	compound
18	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 extend	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 depths	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 depths	det
21	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 waters	nmod
22	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	14 extend	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deeper	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 deeper	cop
25	still	still	ADV	_	27 deeper	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 deeper	advmod
27	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 concealed	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 height	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 height	det
30	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 deeper	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 man	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 height	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 concealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	participle					newly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	conceal	past	some fallen snow	a cleft				vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleft=Patient
3	not extend	past · do-support	snow		the foaming waters in the depths		beneath property	vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to water=Recipient
4	is	past	some fallen snow not said here			still	than the height of a man; deep property	tree rules

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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