Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 2
The air was fresh, but cold; for here amidst the deep snow, the Ice Maiden reigned.
Who acts: air, Ice Maiden · What happens: be, reign
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, 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 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fresh | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fresh | cop |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 cold | cc |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 here | case |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 11 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snow | amod |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 here | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reigned | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Maiden | det |
| 17 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Maiden | compound |
| 18 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reigned | nsubj |
| 19 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 here | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the air | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reign | past | the Ice Maiden | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/2/