Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 91

And on he now sped still quicker--day and night on he went: the loaves were consumed, and the ham too; and now they were in Lapland.

Who acts: reindeer, loaves · What happens: speed, go, consume, be · To what, where: loaves, Lapland

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 (reindeer, loaves), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 sped	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sped	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sped	advmod
5	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	advcl
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 quicker	advmod
7	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sped	xcomp
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 night	cc
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	conj
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 consumed	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 loaves	det
17	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 consumed	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 consumed	aux:pass
19	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 went	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ham	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ham	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ham	det
23	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 consumed	conj
24	too	too	ADV	_	23 ham	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 Lapland	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Lapland	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 Lapland	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 Lapland	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 Lapland	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 Lapland	case
31	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed	past	reindeer			now; day	quick property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	reindeer					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	consume	past · passive		the loaves				vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
4	is	past	loaves = loaf		Lapland	now		tree rules

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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