Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 100

He was driven out there, but no one followed; all his friends were dead, and the little boy kissed his hand to the coffin as it was driven away.

Who acts: one, friends, little boy · What happens: drive out, follow, be, kiss, drive away · To what, where: boy, hand, coffin

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, friends, little boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 driven	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 driven	aux:pass
3	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 driven	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 followed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 followed	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 followed	nsubj
10	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 driven	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 dead	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 friends	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friends	nmod:poss
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dead	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 driven	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kissed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kissed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kissed	nsubj
22	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 driven	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kissed	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 coffin	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 coffin	det
27	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kissed	obl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 driven	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 driven	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 driven	aux:pass
31	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 kissed	advcl
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 driven	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive out	past · passive		boy	there		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	follow	participle	no one				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	boy's friends			dead property	tree rules
4	kiss	past	the little boy	boy's hand		to the coffin	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
5	drive away	past · passive		coffin		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory

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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