The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 1

One winter, which nobody living will ever forget, the snow lay so deep that it came up to the knees of even the tallest man.

Who acts: nobody living, snow · What happens: forget, lie, come up · To what, where: One winter, knees

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody living, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 winter	nummod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forget	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 forget	obj
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 living	compound
6	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forget	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 forget	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 forget	advmod
9	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 winter	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forget	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 deep	advmod
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lay	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 deep	advcl
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 knees	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 knees	det
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
24	even	even	ADV	_	27 man	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knees	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 winter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	future	nobody living	One winter		ever		tree rules
2	lie	past	the snow				deep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come up	past	snow		the knees of the tallest man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to knee=Initial_Location

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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