Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 57
The water trickled down the naked sides of the rocks, and snow lay thickly all around.
Who acts: water, snow · What happens: trickle down, lay · To what, where: naked sides
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 (water, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trickled | nsubj |
| 3 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sides | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sides | det |
| 6 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sides | amod |
| 7 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trickled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rocks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rocks | det |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sides | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trickled | conj |
| 15 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lay | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 around | advmod |
| 17 | around | around | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trickled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trickle down | participle | the water | the naked sides of the rocks | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location side=Source | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | snow | around, thickly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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