Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 108

All the dreams came flying back again to her, and they looked like angels, and one of them drew a little sledge, on which sat Kay, and nodded to her.

Who acts: dreams, one · What happens: come, fly back, look, draw, sit, nod · To what, where: crow, little sledge, Kay

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreams, one), 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	3 dreams	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dreams	det
3	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 angels	case
15	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 drew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drew	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 drew	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sledge	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sledge	amod
24	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drew	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 drew	conj
29	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nodded	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 nodded	cc
32	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 nodded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all dreams					tree rules
2	fly back	gerund	all dreams not said here		crow	again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result
3	look	past	dreams = dream				like angels	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	draw	past	one of dreams	a little sledge				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme
5	sit	past		Kay				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kay=Theme
6	nod	past			crow			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

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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