Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 63

In the great square, the boldest among the boys would often tie their sledges to the country people's carts, and go with them a good way.

Who acts: boys · What happens: tie, go · To what, where: sledges, good way

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 square	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 square	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 square	amod
4	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boldest	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 square	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boldest	det
7	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	among	among	ADP	_	13 tie	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boys	det
10	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tie	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tie	aux
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 tie	advmod
13	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 boldest	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sledges	nmod:poss
15	sledges	sledge	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tie	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	21 carts	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 people	compound
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carts	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 people	case
21	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tie	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 boldest	parataxis
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 way	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 way	amod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boldest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	would	the boys	boy's sledges				to the country people's carts; often property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to cart=Co-Patient
2	go	infinitive		a good way				with boy	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary

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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