Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 17

Just at this moment there came across the snow-field, where the Ice Maiden sat, a party of travellers.

Who acts: Ice Maiden · What happens: come, sit · To what, where: snow field, party

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ice Maiden), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	across	across	ADP	_	11 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 field	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snow	punct
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 sat	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Maiden	det
15	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Maiden	compound
16	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 party	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 party	det
20	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 travellers	case
22	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 party	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				the snow field; there	moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across field=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	the Ice Maiden	a party of travellers					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location party=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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