Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 94
The swing moves, and the bubbles float in charming changing colors: the last is still hanging to the end of the pipe, and rocks in the breeze.
Who acts: swing, bubbles, last · What happens: move, float, change, hang · To what, where: charming, colors, rocks
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 (swing, bubbles, last), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swing | det |
| 2 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 float | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 float | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bubbles | det |
| 7 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 float | nsubj |
| 8 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moves | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 charming | case |
| 10 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 float | obl |
| 11 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 float | advcl |
| 12 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 changing | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 hanging | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 last | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hanging | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hanging | aux |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 hanging | advmod |
| 18 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 moves | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hanging | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pipe | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pipe | det |
| 24 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rocks | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rocks | cc |
| 27 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hanging | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 breeze | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 breeze | det |
| 30 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rocks | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the swing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | float | present | the bubbles | charming | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in charming=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | the bubbles not said here | colors | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hang | present · progressive | the last | rocks in the breeze | to the end of the pipe; still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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