Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 18

Then two young fellows came gallopping up on horseback.

Who acts: two young fellows · What happens: come, gallopp up · To what, where: horseback

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young fellows), 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	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fellows	nummod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellows	amod
4	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	gallopping	gallopp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gallopping	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 horseback	case
9	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gallopping	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	two young fellows				then		tree rules
2	gallopp up	gerund	two young fellows not said here			horseback			tree rules

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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