Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 76

Then she seated him beside her in the sledge, and as she wrapped the fur round him he felt as if he were sinking into a snow drift.

Who acts: queen, fur · What happens: seat, wrap, feel, sink · To what, where: fur, sledge, snow drift

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 (queen, fur), 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 seated	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	obj
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sledge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sledge	det
9	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrapped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wrapped	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 wrapped	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wrapped	nsubj
14	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fur	det
16	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrapped	obj
17	round	round	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wrapped	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wrapped	parataxis
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 sinking	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 sinking	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sinking	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sinking	aux
25	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 felt	advcl
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 drift	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 drift	det
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drift	compound
29	drift	drift	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sinking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past	queen	fur	the sledge	then	beside grandmother	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in sledge=Location
2	wrap	past	queen	the fur			round fur	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fur=Theme
3	feel	past	fur					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sink	past · progressive	fur		a snow drift			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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