Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 1

It was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast.

Who acts: It, snow · What happens: be, fall

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dark	cc
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 dark	advmod
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 evening	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 evening	amod
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dark	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 year	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 year	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 year	amod
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 evening	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 falling	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 falling	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 snow	det
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 falling	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 falling	aux
21	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cold	conj
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 falling	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		cold, terribly property	tree rules
2	be			evening	nearly property	tree rules
3	fall	past · progressive	the snow		fast property	vn occur-48.3 «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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