Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 4

Let but a snow-ball roll, and you and your houses and your towns are crushed and swept away."

Who acts: you · What happens: let, crush, sweep away · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 roll	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 roll	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ball	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 snow	punct
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	compound
7	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crushed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crushed	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 crushed	nsubj:pass
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 houses	cc
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 houses	nmod:poss
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 you	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 towns	cc
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 towns	nmod:poss
16	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 you	conj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 crushed	aux:pass
18	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Let	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swept	cc
20	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 crushed	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 swept	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	crush	present · passive		you		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sweep away	participle			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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