Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 136

Tis gold!” they cried; and they rushed forward, seized the horses, knocked down the little postilion, the coachman, and the servants, and pulled little Gerda out of the carriage.

Who acts: Tis gold, coachman, horses · What happens: cry, rush, seize, knock down, pull · To what, where: horses, little postilion, Gerda, carriage

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 (Tis gold, coachman, horses), 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	Tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gold	compound
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 gold	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 gold	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 rushed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rushed	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rushed	nsubj
10	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
11	forward	forward	ADV	_	10 rushed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horses	det
15	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seized	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knocked	punct
17	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 horses	acl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 knocked	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 postilion	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 postilion	amod
21	postilion	postilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knocked	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 coachman	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coachman	det
24	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 postilion	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 servants	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 servants	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 servants	det
28	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seized	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pulled	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pulled	cc
31	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
32	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 Gerda	advmod
33	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 pulled	obl
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 carriage	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 carriage	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 carriage	det
37	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pulled	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Tis gold				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rush in a quote	past	coachman			forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seize in a quote	past	Tis gold not said here	the horses		the servants obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	knock down in a quote	participle	the horses not said here	the little postilion and the coachman			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	pull in a quote	past	Tis gold not said here	Gerda	the carriage		vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out carriage=Initial_Location

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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