Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 67

It went faster and faster right through the next street, and then the person who drove turned round and nodded pleasantly to Kay, just as if they were acquainted with each other, but whenever Kay wished to loosen his little sledge the driver nodded again, so Kay sat still, and they drove out through the town gate.

Who acts: sledge, Kay, driver · What happens: go, turn round, nod, acquaint, wish, loosen · To what, where: person, next street, Kay, little sledge, town gate

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, driver), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 faster	cc
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 went	conj
6	right	right	ADV	_	10 street	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 street	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 street	amod
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 person	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 person	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 person	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 turned	nsubj
17	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	aux:pass
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 person	acl:relcl
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 turned	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nodded	cc
21	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	conj
22	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	21 nodded	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Kay	case
24	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 nodded	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 acquainted	punct
26	just	just	ADV	_	31 acquainted	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 acquainted	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 acquainted	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 acquainted	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 acquainted	aux:pass
31	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 turned	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	31 acquainted	obl
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 each	fixed
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wished	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 wished	cc
37	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 wished	advmod
38	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 wished	nsubj
39	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 loosen	mark
41	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 wished	xcomp
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 sledge	nmod:poss
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sledge	amod
44	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 loosen	obj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 driver	det
46	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 nodded	nsubj
47	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 sledge	acl:relcl
48	again	again	ADV	_	47 nodded	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sat	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	52 sat	advmod
51	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 sat	nsubj
52	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 wished	parataxis
53	still	still	ADV	_	52 sat	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 drove	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 drove	cc
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 drove	nsubj
57	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 sat	conj
58	out	out	ADP	_	57 drove	compound:prt
59	through	through	ADP	_	62 gate	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 gate	det
61	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 gate	compound
62	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 drove	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	sledge	the person		the next street		fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location
2	turn round	past · passive		the person				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result
3	nod	past			Kay			pleasantly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kay=Recipient
4	acquaint speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Kay				with each	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	wish	past	Kay					whenever property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	loosen not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kay not said here	fault's little sledge					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient
7	nod	past	the driver	fault's little sledge not said here			again		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Patient
8	sit	past	Kay				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	drive out	past	Kay			the town gate			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through gate=Trajectory

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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