Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 5

The foot passengers kept within the shelter of the carriages, which could only move slowly on in the deep snow.

Who acts: foot passengers, carriages · What happens: keep, move · To what, where: deep snow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot passengers, carriages), 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	3 passengers	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passengers	compound
3	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	within	within	ADP	_	7 shelter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shelter	det
7	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 carriages	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carriages	det
10	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shelter	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 move	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 move	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 move	aux
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 move	advmod
15	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 carriages	acl:relcl
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	15 move	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	21 snow	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 snow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 snow	det
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 snow	amod
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 move	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the foot passengers					within the shelter of the carriages	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	move	could	the carriages			the deep snow		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on snow=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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