Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 6

All the boys knew was, that they had seen him tie his sledge to another large and splendid one, which drove down the street and out of the town.

Who acts: boys, Kay, large one · What happens: know, be, see, tie, drive down · To what, where: Kay, sledge, large one, street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, Kay, large one), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 boys	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 knew	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	obj
12	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seen	xcomp
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	12 tie	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	20 one	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 splendid	cc
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 large	conj
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 drove	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 drove	nsubj
23	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 one	acl:relcl
24	down	down	ADP	_	26 street	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 street	det
26	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drove	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 town	cc
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 town	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 town	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 town	det
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 street	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know	past	all boys			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past · perfect	boys = boy	Kay		tree rules
4	tie	infinitive	Kay not said here	Kay's sledge	another large one	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to one=Co-Patient
5	drive down	past	another large one	the street and the town		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme street=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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