The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 129

It began to snow, and every snow-flake that fell on her was to her as a whole shovelful thrown on one of us, for we are so big, and she was only an inch high.

Who acts: death, snow flake, we, THUMBELINA · What happens: begin, fall, be, throw · To what, where: snow, whole shovelful, inch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, snow flake, we, THUMBELINA), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 snow	mark
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shovelful	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shovelful	cc
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 flake	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flake	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snow	punct
10	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shovelful	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flake	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shovelful	cop
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 was	obl
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 shovelful	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shovelful	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shovelful	amod
21	shovelful	shovelful	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	parataxis
22	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 shovelful	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 thrown	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 us	case
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 big	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 big	mark
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 big	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 big	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 big	advmod
32	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thrown	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 inch	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 inch	cc
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 inch	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 inch	cop
37	only	only	ADV	_	39 inch	advmod
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 inch	det
39	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 big	obl
40	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 inch	amod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	death	snow		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Eventuality
2	fall	past	every snow flake		on THUMBELINA	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location
3	is	past	every snow flake		as a whole shovelful	tree rules
4	throw	participle		a whole shovelful not said here	on one of us	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on one=Destination
5	is	present	we		big property	tree rules
6	is a	past	THUMBELINA	a inch		tree rules

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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