Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 103

So they laid him upon a cart, and harnessed two oxen to it; and the oxen ran off with the sailor over heath and moor to the ocean, as if they had been stung by an adder.

Who acts: peasants, oxen, adder · What happens: lay, harness, run off, sting · To what, where: man, cart, two oxen, peasants

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, oxen, adder), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 cart	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cart	det
7	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 harnessed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 harnessed	cc
10	harnessed	harness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 oxen	nummod
12	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 harnessed	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 harnessed	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ran	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ran	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 oxen	det
18	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ran	nsubj
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 ran	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sailor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sailor	det
23	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ran	obl
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 heath	case
25	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sailor	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 moor	cc
27	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heath	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 ocean	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ocean	det
30	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ran	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stung	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 stung	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 stung	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stung	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stung	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 stung	aux:pass
37	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ran	conj
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 adder	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 adder	det
40	adder	adder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stung	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	peasants = peasant	man		a cart		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon cart=Destination
2	harness	past	peasants = peasant not said here	two oxen	cart			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ox=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	run off	past	the oxen				with the sailor over heath and moor; to the ocean result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ocean=Result
4	sting a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	a adder	peasants = peasant				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer

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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