Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 68

Then the snow began to fall so heavily that the little boy could not see a hand's breadth before him, but still they drove on; then he suddenly loosened the cord so that the large sled might go on without him, but it was of no use, his little carriage held fast, and away they went like the wind.

Who acts: snow, little boy, boy, fault, large sled, sled · What happens: begin, fall, not see, drive, loosen, go on · To what, where: breadth, cord, little carriage

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 (snow, little boy, boy, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snow	det
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fall	mark
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 heavily	advmod
8	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 see	advmod
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breadth	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 hand	case
19	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drove	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 drove	cc
24	still	still	ADV	_	26 drove	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drove	nsubj
26	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 drove	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 loosened	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 loosened	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 loosened	nsubj
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 loosened	advmod
32	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cord	det
34	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 loosened	obj
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 go	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sled	det
38	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sled	amod
39	sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 go	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 go	aux
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 loosened	ccomp
42	on	on	ADV	_	41 go	advmod
43	without	without	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 go	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 use	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 use	cc
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 use	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 use	cop
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 use	case
50	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	51 use	det
51	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 loosened	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 carriage	punct
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 carriage	nmod:poss
54	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 carriage	amod
55	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 use	appos
56	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 carriage	acl
57	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 held	advmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 went	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 went	cc
60	away	away	ADV	_	62 went	advmod
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 went	nsubj
62	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
63	like	like	ADP	_	65 wind	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 wind	det
65	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 went	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the snow		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fall	to-infinitive	the snow not said here			heavily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not see	could	the little boy	a hand's breadth	before fault		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breadth=Stimulus
4	drive	past	boy		still		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	loosen	past	fault	the cord	then	suddenly property	tree rules
6	go on	might	the large sled			without fault	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	sled			of no use	tree rules
8	hold	participle		fault's little carriage not said here		fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	go	past	boy			like the wind; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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