Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 79

"My sledge! don't forget my sledge," was his first thought, and then he looked and saw that it was bound fast to one of the white chickens, which flew behind him with the sledge at its back.

Who acts: sledge, fur, white chickens · What happens: not forget, be, look, see, bind, fly · To what, where: sledge, first thought, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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, fur, white chickens), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sledge	nmod:poss
3	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forget	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sledge	punct
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 forget	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 forget	advmod
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	csubj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sledge	nmod:poss
9	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forget	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 thought	nmod:poss
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 thought	amod
15	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looked	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 looked	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 looked	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 bound	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bound	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bound	aux:pass
26	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 saw	ccomp
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 bound	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 bound	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 chickens	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chickens	det
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 chickens	amod
33	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 flew	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 flew	nsubj
36	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 chickens	acl:relcl
37	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 flew	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 sledge	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sledge	det
41	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flew	obl
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 back	case
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 back	nmod:poss
44	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sledge	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not forget in a quote	infinitive · do-support	My sledge	my sledge				tree rules
2	is a	past		fur's first thought				tree rules
3	look	past	fur			then		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	fur not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	bind	past · passive		sledge	one of the white chickens		fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to one=Co-Patient
6	fly	past	the white chickens				behind fur; with the sledge at sledge's back	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location

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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