Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 45

A white hen carries his sledge; he himself sat in the carriage of the Snow Queen, who passed here, down just over the wood, as we lay in our nest.

Who acts: white hen, Kay, we · What happens: carry, sit, pass, lay · To what, where: sledge, carriage, nest

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white hen, Kay, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hen	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hen	amod
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	nsubj
4	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sledge	nmod:poss
6	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carries	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 he	nmod:unmarked
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carries	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 carriage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 carriage	det
13	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Queen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
16	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Queen	compound
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 carriage	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 passed	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 passed	nsubj
20	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	ccomp
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 passed	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 down	punct
23	down	down	ADV	_	20 passed	advmod
24	just	just	ADV	_	27 wood	advmod
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 lay	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 passed	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 nest	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nest	nmod:poss
34	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	a white hen	Kay's sledge			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme
2	sit	past	Kay				tree rules
3	pass	past			the carriage of the Snow Queen; here	over the wood; down property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in carriage=Location
4	lay	present	we		our nest		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in nest=Destination

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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