The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 102

Once upon a time, in the middle of winter when the snow-flakes were falling like feathers on the earth, a Queen sat at a window framed in black ebony and sewed.

Who acts: snow flakes, Queen · What happens: fall, sit, frame, sew · To what, where: earth, window

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow flakes, Queen), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 sat	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 middle	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 winter	case
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 falling	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flakes	det
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flakes	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 snow	punct
15	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 falling	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 falling	aux
17	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 middle	acl
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 feathers	case
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 falling	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 falling	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Queen	det
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 window	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
30	framed	frame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 window	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 ebony	case
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ebony	amod
33	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 framed	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sewed	cc
35	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sat	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	the snow flakes		the earth	like feathers	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location
2	sit	past	a Queen		a window	once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
3	frame	participle		a window not said here		in black ebony	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ebony=Theme
4	sew	past	a Queen not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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