Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 164

Presently an old cattle driver, with snowy hair, passed by, carrying a large staff in his hand, with which he drove a large herd of cows and oxen before him.

Who acts: Claus · What happens: pass by, carry, drive · To what, where: snowy hair, large staff, hand, large herd

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), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	5 driver	advmod
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 driver	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 driver	amod
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driver	compound
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driver	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hair	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 passed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 carrying	punct
14	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 driver	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 staff	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 staff	amod
17	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drove	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 drove	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drove	nsubj
25	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carrying	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 herd	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 herd	amod
28	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drove	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 cows	case
30	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 herd	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 oxen	cc
32	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cows	conj
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drove	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 driver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pass by	participle		snowy hair not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	gerund		a large staff	Claus's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent staff=Value in hand=Location
3	drive	past	Claus	a large herd of cows and oxen		before sack	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herd=Theme before he=Destination

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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