Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 111

It was there tied to one of the white chickens, who flew along with it on his back behind the large sledge.

Who acts: white chickens · What happens: tie, fly · To what, where: sledge, one, back

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white chickens), 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	4 tied	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	aux:pass
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tied	advmod
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tied	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 chickens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chickens	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chickens	amod
10	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chickens	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 flew	nsubj
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chickens	acl:relcl
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 flew	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flew	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flew	obl
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 sledge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sledge	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sledge	amod
23	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flew	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		sledge	one of the white chickens	there			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to one=Co-Patient
2	fly	past	the white chickens			soul's back		with sledge; behind the large sledge; along property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on back=Location

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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