Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 197
In the court-yard some of the merry children were playing who had danced at Christmas round the Fir Tree, and were so glad at the sight of him.
Who acts: some · What happens: play, dance, be, sight · To what, where: Christmas, sight, Tree
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 yard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 yard | det |
| 3 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yard | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 court | punct |
| 5 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 playing | obl |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 playing | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 9 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 children | amod |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 some | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 playing | aux |
| 12 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 danced | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 danced | aux |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 playing | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Christmas | case |
| 17 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | obl |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 Tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Tree | det |
| 20 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Tree | compound |
| 21 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 glad | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 glad | cc |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 glad | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 glad | advmod |
| 26 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 playing | parataxis |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sight | det |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glad | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sight | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | some | in the court yard | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dance | past · perfect | Christmas | round the Fir Tree | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the sight of Tree | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sight | Tree | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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