Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 97

"Here it's agreeable in winter!" said the little girl, and all the trees were covered with hoar-frost, so that they looked like white coral.

Who acts: sea, little girl, children · What happens: be, say, cover, look · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, little girl, children), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 agreeable	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 agreeable	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 agreeable	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 agreeable	cop
5	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agreeable	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 agreeable	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 agreeable	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 covered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 covered	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 trees	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 covered	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 covered	aux:pass
20	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 frost	case
22	hoar	hoar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frost	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hoar	punct
24	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 covered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looked	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 looked	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 covered	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 coral	case
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 coral	amod
32	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looked	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	sea		here	winter	agreeable property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the little girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cover	past · passive		all trees			with hoar frost	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with frost=Theme
4	look	past	children = child				like white coral	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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