The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 174

Next morning the panes of the kitchen window were covered with ice, and the most beautiful ice-flowers that even a snow-man could desire, only they blotted out the stove.

Who acts: snow man, panes · What happens: cover, desire, blot out · To what, where: Next morning, beautiful ice flowers, stove

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow man, panes), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	nsubj:pass
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 panes	det
4	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 window	compound
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 panes	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	aux:pass
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 ice	case
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flowers	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flowers	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 beautiful	advmod
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flowers	amod
18	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flowers	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ice	punct
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 desire	obj
22	even	even	ADV	_	26 man	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
24	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 snow	punct
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 desire	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 desire	aux
28	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 flowers	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 blotted	punct
30	only	only	ADV	_	32 blotted	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 blotted	nsubj
32	blotted	blot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 blotted	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stove	det
35	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blotted	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		Next morning	with ice; the beautiful ice flowers obl	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ice=Theme
2	desire	could	a snow man	the beautiful ice flowers		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
3	blot out	past	panes = pane	the stove		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stove=Destination

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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