Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 92

The sledge drove round the square twice, and Kay tied on his sledge as quickly as he could, and off he drove with it.

Who acts: sledge, Kay, other · What happens: drive, tie · To what, where: square

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 (sledge, Kay, other), 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	2 sledge	det
2	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 square	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 square	det
6	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 drove	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tied	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tied	cc
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tied	nsubj
11	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 sledge	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sledge	nmod:poss
14	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 quickly	advmod
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 tied	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 could	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 quickly	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drove	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drove	cc
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 drove	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	nsubj
24	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the sledge	the square	twice property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round square=Trajectory
2	tie	past	Kay		on other's sledge; quickly property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on sledge=Co-Patient
3	drive	past	other		with sledge	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/11/92/