Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 45

Omnibuses, those over-crowded moving houses, came rattling by; horsemen galloped among them; even carts and wagons asserted their rights.

Who acts: Omnibuses, horsemen, carts · What happens: move, come, rattle, gallop, assert · To what, where: rights

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omnibuses, horsemen, carts), 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	Omnibuses	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 houses	punct
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 houses	det
4	over-crowded	over-crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 houses	amod
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 houses	amod
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Omnibuses	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Omnibuses	punct
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	rattling	rattle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	9 rattling	fixed
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 galloped	punct
12	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 galloped	nsubj
13	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 galloped	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 asserted	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 carts	advmod
18	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 asserted	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wagons	cc
20	wagons	wagon	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carts	conj
21	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rights	nmod:poss
23	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 asserted	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Omnibuses and that over-crowded moving houses			tree rules
3	rattle	gerund	Omnibuses and that over-crowded moving houses not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	gallop	past	horsemen		among Omnibuses = omnibus	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Trajectory
5	assert	past	carts and wagons	Omnibuses's rights		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme right=Reflexive

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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