Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 99
Suddenly they flew on one side; the large sledge stopped, and the person who drove rose up.
Who acts: flakes, large sledge, person · What happens: fly, stop, drive, rise up · To what, where: one side
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 (flakes, large sledge, 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 side | nummod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sledge | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sledge | amod |
| 10 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rose | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 drove | nsubj |
| 17 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 person | acl:relcl |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 rose | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | flakes = flake | one side | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 2 | stop | past | the large sledge | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | the person | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise up | past | the person | vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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.
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