Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 104
They danced hand in hand beside the calm lake in the clear moonshine.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: dance · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 danced | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 danced | obl |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 8 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lake | amod |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 danced | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moonshine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moonshine | det |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moonshine | amod |
| 13 | moonshine | moonshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lake | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | sisters = sister | hand | hand | beside the calm lake in the clear moonshine | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
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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