Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 66

The sledge drove twice round the square, and Kay fastened his own little sledge to it, so that when it went away, he followed with it.

Who acts: sledge, Kay, fault · What happens: drive, fasten, go away, follow · To what, where: square, own little sledge, sledge

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 (sledge, Kay, fault), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sledge	det
2	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 drove	advmod
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 square	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fastened	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fastened	cc
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fastened	nsubj
11	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sledge	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sledge	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sledge	amod
15	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fastened	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fastened	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 followed	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 followed	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 went	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 followed	advcl
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 followed	nsubj
27	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fastened	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 followed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the sledge			the square	twice property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round square=Trajectory
2	fasten	past	Kay	fault's own little sledge	sledge			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	go away	past	sledge				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	past	fault				with sledge	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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