Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 60

It began to snow too; and the snow-flakes, as they fell upon her, were like a whole shovelful falling upon one of us, for we are tall, but she was only an inch high.

Who acts: death, flakes, snow flakes, whole shovelful, we, tree · What happens: begin, fall, be · To what, where: snow, snow flakes, inch

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, flakes, snow flakes, whole shovelful), 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	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 snow	mark
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	2 began	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 shovelful	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 shovelful	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flakes	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flakes	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snow	punct
11	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shovelful	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 fell	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flakes	acl:relcl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 shovelful	cop
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 shovelful	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 shovelful	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shovelful	amod
23	shovelful	shovelful	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	parataxis
24	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 shovelful	acl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 falling	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tall	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 tall	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 tall	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tall	cop
33	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shovelful	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 inch	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 inch	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 inch	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 inch	cop
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 inch	advmod
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 inch	det
40	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tall	conj
41	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 inch	amod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	death	snow		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Eventuality
2	fall	past	flakes = flake	the snow flakes not said here	upon tree	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient flake=Result
3	is	past	the snow flakes		like a whole shovelful	tree rules
4	fall	gerund	a whole shovelful not said here		upon one of us	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon one=Location
5	is	present	we		tall property	tree rules
6	is a	past	tree	a inch		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.

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