The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 23

It moved its little arms and its little legs in the snow that lay about it just as the living children did theirs.

Who acts: head, snow, living children · What happens: move, lie, do · To what, where: little arms, snow, arms

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 (head, snow, living children), 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 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arms	amod
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 moved	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 legs	cc
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legs	amod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arms	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 snow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 snow	acl:relcl
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lay	obl
17	just	just	ADV	_	22 did	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 did	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
20	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 children	compound
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 did	nsubj
22	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lay	advcl
23	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 did	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past	head	head's little arms and head's little legs	the snow		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme arm=Result
2	lie	past	the snow			about head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location
3	do	past	the living children	arms = arm			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Eventuality

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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