Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 69

Then he called out loudly, but nobody heard him, while the snow beat upon him, and the sledge flew onwards.

Who acts: fault, nobody, snow, sledge · What happens: call out, hear, beat, fly · To what, where: fault

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 (fault, nobody, snow, sledge), 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	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 heard	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beat	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 beat	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beat	nsubj
15	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 beat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sledge	det
21	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flew	nsubj
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
23	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	fault		then	loudly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	nobody	fault			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	beat	past	the snow			upon fault	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	fly	past	the sledge			onwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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