Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 46

A white fowl carried his sledge, and he sat in the carriage of the Snow Queen, which drove through the wood while we were lying in our nest.

Who acts: white fowl, fowl, Snow Queen, we · What happens: carry, sit, drive, lie · To what, where: sledge, carriage, wood, nest

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 (white fowl, fowl, Snow Queen, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fowl	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fowl	amod
3	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sledge	nmod:poss
6	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 carriage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 carriage	det
13	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Queen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
16	Snow	Snow	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Queen	compound
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 carriage	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drove	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 drove	nsubj
20	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Queen	acl:relcl
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 wood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drove	obl
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 lying	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 lying	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lying	aux
27	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 drove	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 nest	case
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 nest	nmod:poss
30	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	carry	past	a white fowl	fowl's sledge		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme
2	sit	past	fowl		the carriage of the Snow Queen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in carriage=Location
3	drive	past	the Snow Queen		the wood	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
4	lie	past · progressive	we		our nest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=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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