Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 30

The snow that lay upon it was partially thawed, and the stones crumbled beneath the feet.

Who acts: snow, stones · What happens: lie, thaw, crumble · To what, where: snow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, stones), 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 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 thawed	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thawed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thawed	aux:pass
8	partially	partially	ADV	_	9 thawed	advmod
9	thawed	thaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lay	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crumbled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crumbled	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stones	det
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crumbled	nsubj
14	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 feet	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feet	det
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crumbled	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the snow			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	thaw	past · passive		snow	partially property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	crumble	past	the stones		beneath the feet	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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