Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 65

But while they were all amusing themselves, and Kay with them, a great sledge came by; it was painted white, and in it sat some one wrapped in a rough white fur, and wearing a white cap.

Who acts: boy, great sledge, one · What happens: amuse, come by, paint, sit, wrap, wear · To what, where: boy, sledge, one, rough white fur, white cap

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 (boy, great sledge, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11734): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 amusing	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 amusing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amusing	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 amusing	advmod
6	amusing	amuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 amusing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Kay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Kay	cc
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 amusing	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Kay	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 amusing	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sledge	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sledge	amod
16	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	by	by	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 painted	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 painted	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 painted	aux:pass
22	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 came	parataxis
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 painted	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sat	obl
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 painted	conj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	nsubj
31	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 one	acl
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 fur	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fur	det
34	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fur	amod
35	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fur	amod
36	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wrapped	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wearing	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wearing	cc
39	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 wrapped	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cap	det
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cap	amod
42	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wearing	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	amuse	past · progressive	boy	boy		all property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
2	come by	past	a great sledge				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	paint	past · passive		sledge		white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	sit	past	some one		sledge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
5	wrap	participle		some one not said here	a rough white fur		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fur=Destination
6	wear	gerund		a white cap			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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