Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 51

The little boy was frightened, and jumped down from the chair; it seemed to him as if, at the same moment, a large bird flew past the window.

Who acts: it, large bird · What happens: frighten, jump down, seem, fly · To what, where: little boy, chair, account, window

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 (it, large bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 jumped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jumped	cc
8	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 jumped	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 chair	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chair	det
12	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumped	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seemed	obl
18	as	as	ADP	_	15 seemed	xcomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 as	fixed
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flew	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 moment	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moment	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moment	amod
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 moment	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bird	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bird	amod
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	nsubj
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seemed	conj
30	past	past	ADP	_	32 window	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 window	det
32	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the little boy					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	jump down	past				the chair		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chair=Trajectory
3	seem	past	it		account				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	fly	past	a large bird			the window	moment		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past window=Trajectory

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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