Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 141

A great wagon rattled past him; the coachman brandished his whip, and the horses flew by at a gallop.

Who acts: great wagon, coachman, horses · What happens: rattle, brandish, fly · To what, where: whip

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great wagon, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wagon	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wagon	amod
3	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattled	nsubj
4	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rattled	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 brandished	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coachman	det
9	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brandished	nsubj
10	brandished	brandish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 whip	nmod:poss
12	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brandished	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horses	det
16	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 brandished	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 gallop	case
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 gallop	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gallop	det
21	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rattle	past	a great wagon		past person	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	brandish	past	the coachman	person's whip		tree rules
3	fly	past	the horses		by a gallop	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by gallop=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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