Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 134

They drove through the dark wood; but the carriage shone like a torch, and it dazzled the eyes of the robbers, so that they could not bear to look at it.

Who acts: coachman, carriage · What happens: drive, shine, dazzle, not bear, look · To what, where: dark wood, eyes

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 (coachman, carriage), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 shone	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 shone	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carriage	det
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shone	nsubj
11	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drove	parataxis
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 torch	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 torch	det
14	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shone	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dazzled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dazzled	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dazzled	nsubj
18	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shone	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eyes	det
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dazzled	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 robbers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 robbers	det
23	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eyes	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bear	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 bear	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bear	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bear	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 bear	advmod
30	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dazzled	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 look	mark
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 bear	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 look	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	coachman		the dark wood		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
2	shine	participle	the carriage			like a torch	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dazzle	past	carriage	the eyes of the robbers			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
4	not bear	could	coachman				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	look	to-infinitive	coachman not said here			at Robber	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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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