Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 93

On they went quicker and quicker into the next street; and the person who drove turned round to Kay, and nodded to him in a friendly manner, just as if they knew each other.

Who acts: Kay, person · What happens: go, drive, turn round, nod, know · To what, where: next street, Kay, other, friendly manner, each

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, person), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 nodded	advcl
4	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 quicker	cc
6	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 quicker	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 street	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 street	amod
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nodded	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nodded	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 drove	nsubj
16	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 person	acl:relcl
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 drove	xcomp
18	round	round	ADV	_	17 turned	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Kay	case
20	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nodded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nodded	cc
23	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 nodded	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 manner	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 manner	det
28	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 manner	amod
29	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nodded	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 knew	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	35 knew	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 knew	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 knew	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 knew	nsubj
35	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 nodded	conj
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	35 knew	obj
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Kay			the next street	quick property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into street=Initial_Location
2	drive	past	the person					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
3	turn round	participle	the person not said here		Kay		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kay=Result
4	nod	past	the person		other	a friendly manner		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	know a condition, not said to happen	past	Kay	each				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=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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