Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 91

Just as they were in the very height of their amusement, a large sledge passed by: it was painted quite white, and there was someone in it wrapped up in a rough white mantle of fur, with a rough white fur cap on his head.

Who acts: Kay, someone · What happens: be, pass by, paint, wrap up, amuse · To what, where: height, large sledge, sledge, rough white mantle

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 (Kay, someone), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	8 height	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 height	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 height	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 height	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 height	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 height	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 height	advmod
8	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 amusement	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 amusement	nmod:poss
11	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 height	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sledge	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sledge	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sledge	amod
15	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 height	conj
16	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sledge	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	16 passed	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 painted	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 painted	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 painted	aux:pass
21	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 height	parataxis
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 white	advmod
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 painted	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 painted	conj
28	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 wrapped	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 someone	nmod
31	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 was	ccomp
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 wrapped	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 mantle	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mantle	det
35	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mantle	amod
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mantle	amod
37	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wrapped	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 fur	case
39	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mantle	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 cap	punct
41	with	with	ADP	_	46 cap	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 cap	det
43	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 cap	amod
44	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 cap	amod
45	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cap	compound
46	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wrapped	parataxis
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 head	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 head	nmod:poss
49	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cap	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 height	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kay		the height and a large sledge	of Kay's amusement	tree rules
2	pass by	participle		a large sledge not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	paint	past · passive		sledge		white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	be	past			there		tree rules
5	wrap up	past	someone		a rough white mantle of fur		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mantle=Destination
6	amuse		Kay				nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «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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