Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 102

Here the dreams were rushing past, but they hastened by so quickly that Gerda could not see the high personages.

Who acts: dreams, Gerda · What happens: rush, hasten, not see · To what, where: high personages

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreams, Gerda), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rushing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dreams	det
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rushing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rushing	aux
5	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	past	past	ADV	_	5 rushing	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hastened	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 hastened	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hastened	nsubj
10	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 rushing	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 so	case
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 quickly	advmod
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 hastened	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
15	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hastened	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 personages	det
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 personages	amod
21	personages	personage	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rushing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past · progressive	the dreams		here	past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hasten	participle	dreams = dream			quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not see	could	Gerda	the high personages			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer personage=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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