Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 94

Every time he was going to untie his sledge, the person nodded to him, and then Kay sat quiet; and so on they went till they came outside the gates of the town.

Who acts: other, person, Kay · What happens: go, untie, nod, sit, come · To what, where: time, sledge, other, gates

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 (other, person, Kay), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nodded	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 time	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 untie	mark
7	untie	untie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sledge	nmod:poss
9	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 untie	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nodded	nsubj
13	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nodded	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sat	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sat	advmod
19	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nodded	conj
21	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sat	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
25	on	on	SCONJ	_	27 went	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nodded	conj
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	advcl
31	outside	outside	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gates	det
33	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gates	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	other	every time not said here				tree rules
2	untie	to-infinitive	other not said here	other's sledge				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient
3	nod	past	the person		other	time		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	sit	past	Kay			then	quiet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	Kay					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	Kay	the gates of the town			outside property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme

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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