Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 73
All at once they sprang on one side, the great sledge stopped, and the person who had driven it rose up.
Who acts: All, great sledge, person · What happens: sprang, stop, drive, rise up · To what, where: one side, 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 (All, great sledge, person), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | sprang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 side | nummod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sledge | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sledge | amod |
| 12 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rose | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rose | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 driven | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 driven | aux |
| 20 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 person | acl:relcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 driven | obj |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stopped | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 rose | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprang | present | All | one side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the great sledge | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drive | past · perfect | the person | sledge | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | ||||
| 4 | rise up | past | the person | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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