The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 4

One winter’s day, when the sun was shining brightly, the couple were standing outside their cottage, and the woman was looking at all the little icicles which hung from the roof.

Who acts: sun, couple, woman, little icicles · What happens: shine, stand, look, hang · To what, where: cottage, roof

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, couple, woman, little icicles), 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	4 day	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 winter	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shining	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 shining	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shining	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shining	aux
10	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 day	conj
11	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	10 shining	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 couple	det
14	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	aux
16	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	outside	outside	ADP	_	19 cottage	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cottage	nmod:poss
19	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looking	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 looking	aux
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 standing	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	30 icicles	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 icicles	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 icicles	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 icicles	amod
30	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 looking	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 hung	nsubj
32	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 icicles	acl:relcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 roof	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roof	det
35	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hung	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past · progressive	the sun			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past · progressive	the couple	man's cottage	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside cottage=Location
3	look	past · progressive	the woman			at all little icicles	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at icicle=Theme
4	hang	past	all little icicles	the roof			vn assuming_position-50 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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