Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 122

Then he placed the old woman on the back seat, so that she might not fall out as he drove, and rode away through the wood.

Who acts: Claus, woman · What happens: place, not fall out, drive, ride away · To what, where: old woman, back seat, wood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus, woman), 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	3 placed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 seat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seat	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seat	compound
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fall	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 fall	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fall	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fall	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 fall	advmod
17	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 placed	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 fall	compound:prt
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 drove	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 drove	nsubj
21	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fall	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rode	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rode	cc
24	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 rode	advmod
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 wood	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wood	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rode	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	Claus	the old woman	the back seat	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme on seat=Destination
2	not fall out	might	woman					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drive	past	Claus					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	ride away	past	Claus not said here		the wood		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=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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