The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 54

When a great storm broke, and the earth was white with hail, she became bright and joyous as the Snowflake of old; but when the clouds passed, and the hail melted beneath the sun, Snowflake would burst into tears and weep as a sister would weep over her brother.

Who acts: great storm, earth, storm, clouds, hail, sister · What happens: break, be, become, pass, melt, burst · To what, where: hail, tears

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 (great storm, earth, storm, clouds), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 broke	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 storm	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storm	amod
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 became	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 white	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 white	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 white	cop
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 broke	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 hail	case
13	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 joyous	cc
19	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bright	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 Snowflake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Snowflake	det
22	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 joyous	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 old	case
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Snowflake	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 passed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 passed	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 passed	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 clouds	det
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 passed	nsubj
30	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 became	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 burst	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 burst	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hail	det
34	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 burst	nsubj
35	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 hail	acl
36	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	38 sun	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sun	det
38	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 melted	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hail	punct
40	Snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 burst	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 burst	aux
42	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 passed	parataxis
43	into	into	ADP	_	44 tears	case
44	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 burst	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 weep	cc
46	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 burst	conj
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 weep	mark
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 sister	det
49	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 weep	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 weep	aux
51	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 weep	advcl
52	over	over	ADP	_	54 brother	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 brother	nmod:poss
54	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 weep	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	a great storm				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the earth			with hail; white property	tree rules
3	become	past	storm			bright property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	pass	past	the clouds				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	melt	participle		the hail not said here		beneath the sun	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	burst	would	the hail		tears		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	weep	infinitive	the hail not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	weep	would	a sister			over sister's brother	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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