Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 95

“I think there is somebody just behind us,” said Gerda; and something rushed past: it was like shadowy figures on the wall; horses with flowing manes and thin legs, huntsmen, ladies and gentlemen on horseback.

Who acts: Gerda, somebody, something, tale · What happens: think, be, say, rush, flow · To what, where: wall · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Gerda, somebody, something, tale), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
6	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 is	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 us	advmod
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 is	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 us	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 is	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
13	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 rushed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rushed	cc
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 rushed	nsubj
17	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	parataxis
18	past	past	ADV	_	17 rushed	advmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 figures	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 figures	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 figures	cop
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 figures	case
23	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 figures	amod
24	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 wall	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wall	det
27	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 figures	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 horses	punct
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 figures	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 manes	case
31	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 manes	amod
32	manes	manis	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 horses	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 legs	cc
34	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 legs	amod
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 horses	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 huntsmen	punct
37	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 horses	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ladies	punct
39	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 horses	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 gentlemen	cc
41	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 horses	conj
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 horseback	case
43	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 horses	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	Gerda			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be in a quote	present	somebody	there	behind us	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind we=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Gerda			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	rush	past	something		past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	tale	the wall	like shadowy figures and horses with flowing manes on horseback and thin legs and huntsmen and ladies and gentlemen	tree rules
6	flow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/13/95/