The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 22

A white bird carried his sledge; he was sitting in the Snow-queen’s carriage which drove over the forest when our little ones were in the nest.

Who acts: white bird, bird, carriage, little ones · What happens: carry, sit, drive, be · To what, where: sledge, carriage, forest, nest

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white bird, bird, carriage, little ones), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sledge	nmod:poss
6	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sitting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	aux
10	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 carried	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	17 carriage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 queen	det
13	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 queen	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Snow	punct
15	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carriage	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 queen	case
17	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 drove	nsubj
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 carriage	acl:relcl
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 nest	advmod
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ones	nmod:poss
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ones	amod
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 nest	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 nest	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 nest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nest	det
30	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	carry	past	a white bird	bird's sledge		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=Theme
2	sit	past · progressive	bird		the Snow queen's carriage	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in carriage=Location
3	drive	past	the Snow queen's carriage		the forest	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over forest=Trajectory
4	is	past	our little ones		the nest	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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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