Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 89

There, in the market-place, some of the boldest of the boys used to tie their sledges to the carts as they passed by, and so they were pulled along, and got a good ride.

Who acts: boys, Boy · What happens: use, tie, pass by, pull, get · To what, where: sledges, Boy, good ride

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 (boys, Boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 boldest	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 place	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 market	punct
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boldest	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 boldest	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 boldest	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 boldest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boldest	det
12	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 boys	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boys	det
15	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boldest	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tie	mark
18	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sledges	nmod:poss
20	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tie	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 carts	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 carts	det
23	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tie	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 passed	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 passed	nsubj
26	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tie	advcl
27	by	by	ADP	_	26 passed	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pulled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pulled	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 pulled	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pulled	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pulled	aux:pass
33	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 used	conj
34	along	along	ADV	_	33 pulled	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 got	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 got	cc
37	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 used	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 ride	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ride	amod
40	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 got	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 boldest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	the boys			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tie	to-infinitive	the boys not said here	Boy's sledges	to the carts	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to cart=Co-Patient
3	pass by	past	Boy			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull	past · passive		Boy	along property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	get	past		a good ride		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus

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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