Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 1

The coach drove on through a thick forest, where it lighted up the way like a torch, and dazzled the eyes of some robbers, who could not bear to let it pass them unmolested.

Who acts: coach · What happens: drive on, light up, dazzle, not bear, let, pass · To what, where: thick forest, coach, eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coach), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coach	det
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 drove	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forest	amod
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lighted	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lighted	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lighted	nsubj:pass
12	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 forest	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 lighted	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lighted	obl:unmarked
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 torch	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 torch	det
18	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 way	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dazzled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 dazzled	cc
21	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eyes	det
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dazzled	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 robbers	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 robbers	det
26	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eyes	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bear	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 bear	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bear	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 bear	advmod
31	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dazzled	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 let	mark
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 bear	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pass	obj
37	unmolested	unmolested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pass	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive on	past	the coach		a thick forest		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory
2	light up	participle · passive		coach		the way like a torch obl:unmarked	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
3	dazzle	past	the coach not said here	the eyes of some robbers			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
4	not bear	could					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	let	to-infinitive		coach			tree rules
6	pass	infinitive	coach not said here	eyes = eye		unmolested property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

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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