Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 96

He then cried as loud as he could, but no one heard him; the snow drifted and the sledge flew on, and sometimes it gave a jerk as though they were driving over hedges and ditches.

Who acts: other, one, snow, sledge, Boy · What happens: cry, hear, drift, fly, give, drive · To what, where: other, jerk, hedges

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, one, snow, sledge), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cried	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cried	advmod
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cried	xcomp
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 drifted	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snow	det
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drifted	nsubj
18	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sledge	det
21	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flew	nsubj
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drifted	conj
23	on	on	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 gave	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drifted	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 jerk	det
30	jerk	jerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
31	as	as	ADV	_	28 gave	advmod
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 driving	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 driving	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 driving	aux
35	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 gave	advcl
36	over	over	ADP	_	37 hedges	case
37	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 driving	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ditches	cc
39	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hedges	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	other			then	loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	no one	other				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	drift	past	the snow					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly	past	the sledge					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	sledge	a jerk			sometimes property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerk=Theme
6	drive	past · progressive	Boy		hedges and ditches			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hedge=Trajectory

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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