The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 66

A few snow-flakes were falling outside, and one of the, the largest, lay on the edge of one of the window-boxes.

Who acts: few snow flakes, one · What happens: fall, lay · To what, where: edge

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few snow flakes, one), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flakes	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flakes	amod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flakes	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 falling	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 falling	aux
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 falling	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lay	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 lay	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 largest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 largest	det
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 largest	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 largest	det
16	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
18	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 falling	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 edge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edge	det
21	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 edge	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 boxes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boxes	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boxes	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 window	punct
28	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	a few snow flakes					outside property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	present	one of the largest			the edge of one of the window boxes			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on edge=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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