Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 25

The wind whirled the faded, fallen leaves; the snow drifted in the valleys, as well as upon the mountains, and the Ice Maiden sat in the stately palace which, in winter time, she generally occupied.

Who acts: wind, snow, Ice Maiden · What happens: whirl, fade, fall, drift, sit · To what, where: faded leaves, valleys, stately palace

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, snow, Ice Maiden), 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 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whirled	nsubj
3	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leaves	det
5	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 leaves	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fallen	punct
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 faded	conj
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whirled	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 drifted	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drifted	nsubj
12	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 whirled	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 valleys	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valleys	det
15	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drifted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mountains	punct
17	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	22 mountains	cc
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 as	fixed
19	as	as	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 mountains	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mountains	det
22	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 valleys	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Maiden	det
26	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Maiden	compound
27	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whirled	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 palace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
31	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 palace	amod
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 sat	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 occupied	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 time	case
36	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 time	compound
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 occupied	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 time	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 occupied	nsubj
40	generally	generally	ADV	_	41 occupied	advmod
41	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sat	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whirled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	whirl	past	the wind	the faded leaves		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
2	fade	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fall	participle				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drift	participle	the snow		the valleys as the mountains	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory
5	sit	past	the Ice Maiden		the stately palace	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent which=Theme in palace=Location

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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