The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 5

Then the winter came, and the snow lay white and sparkling all around, and a hare would come and spring right over the little fir-tree, which annoyed it very much.

Who acts: winter, snow, hare · What happens: come, lie, sparkle, spring · To what, where: little fir tree

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, snow, hare), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lay	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lay	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sparkling	cc
12	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lay	conj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 around	advmod
14	around	around	ADV	_	12 sparkling	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hare	det
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spring	cc
22	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
23	right	right	ADV	_	22 spring	advmod
24	over	over	ADP	_	29 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tree	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tree	amod
27	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 fir	punct
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spring	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 annoyed	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 annoyed	nsubj
32	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tree	amod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 annoyed	nsubj
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	32 annoyed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the winter		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	the snow			white property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sparkle	gerund	the snow not said here			around property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	would	a hare				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spring	infinitive	a hare not said here	the little fir tree		right property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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