Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 51
Then a stately carriage came rolling along that way, and in it sat a grand lady driving the spirited, light-footed horses.
Who acts: stately carriage, grand lady · What happens: come, roll, sit, drive · To what, where: way, grand lady, carriage, spirited footed horses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stately carriage, grand lady), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 carriage | det |
| 3 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carriage | amod |
| 4 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rolling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sat | obl |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 16 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obj |
| 18 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 lady | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horses | det |
| 20 | spirited | spirited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horses | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spirited | punct |
| 22 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 footed | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 light | punct |
| 24 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horses | amod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 driving | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a stately carriage | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | a stately carriage not said here | that way | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along way=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | a stately carriage not said here | a grand lady | carriage | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in it=Location | |||
| 4 | drive | gerund | a grand lady not said here | the spirited footed horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
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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