Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 28

You see, in winter, when the snow lies very deep, and has hidden the whole road so that nothing is to be seen, those trees serve me for a landmark.

Who acts: You, snow, trees · What happens: see, lie, hide, serve · To what, where: whole road, nothing, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, snow, trees), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 winter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lies	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 lies	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lies	nsubj
10	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 deep	advmod
12	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lies	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hidden	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hidden	cc
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hidden	aux
16	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 see	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 road	amod
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hidden	obj
20	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 serve	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 seen	mark
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 seen	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux:pass
24	to	to	PART	_	26 seen	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 serve	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
28	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 trees	det
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 serve	nsubj
30	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hidden	advcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 serve	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 landmark	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 landmark	det
34	landmark	landmark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 serve	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You		winter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	lie	present	the snow				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hide	present · perfect		the whole road			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
4	see	present · passive		nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	serve	present	that trees	me		for a landmark	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme for landmark=Recipient

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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