Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 98
The snow creaked under one's feet, as if one had new boots on.
Who acts: snow, one · What happens: creak, have · To what, where: feet, new boots
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 (snow, one), 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 snow | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creaked | nsubj |
| 3 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 5 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 one | case |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 creaked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 creaked | conj |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boots | amod |
| 14 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | past | the snow | one's feet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | one | new boots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient |
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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