Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 98

But it was only for a moment; then they shouted that the whole place re-echoed with their rejoicing; they danced round the Tree, and one present after the other was pulled off.

Who acts: departure, persons · What happens: be, shout, dance, pull off, rejoice · To what, where: one present

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 (departure, persons), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 moment	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moment	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moment	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 moment	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 shouted	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 shouted	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shouted	nsubj
11	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 moment	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 re-echoed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 place	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 place	amod
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 re-echoed	nsubj
16	re-echoed	re-echoed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shouted	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 rejoicing	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 rejoicing	nmod:poss
19	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 re-echoed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 danced	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 danced	nsubj
22	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shouted	conj
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 Tree	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Tree	det
25	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 danced	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pulled	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pulled	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 present	nummod
29	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pulled	nsubj:pass
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 other	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 present	nmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 pulled	aux:pass
34	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 danced	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	34 pulled	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 moment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	departure		for a moment		tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	persons = person		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dance	past	persons = person			round the Tree	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	pull off	past · passive		one present after the other			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	rejoice		persons = person				nom rejoicing «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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