Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 14

Mirth never reigned there; there was never even a little bear-ball, with the storm for music, while the polar bears went on their hind legs and showed off their steps.

Who acts: Mirth, polar bears, bears · What happens: not reign, not be, go, show off, step · To what, where: little bear ball, hind legs, steps

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mirth, polar bears, bears), 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	Mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reigned	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 reigned	advmod
3	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 reigned	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ball	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ball	cop
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 ball	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	14 ball	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ball	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ball	amod
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ball	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 bear	punct
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reigned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 storm	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 storm	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 storm	det
18	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ball	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 music	case
20	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 storm	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 went	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bears	det
24	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bears	amod
25	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reigned	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 legs	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 legs	nmod:poss
29	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 legs	amod
30	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 showed	cc
32	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 went	conj
33	off	off	ADP	_	35 steps	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 steps	nmod:poss
35	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 showed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not reign	past	Mirth		there	tree rules
2	not is a	past		a little bear ball and the storm for music		tree rules
3	go	past	the polar bears		bears's hind legs	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on leg=Location
4	show off	past	the polar bears not said here	bears's steps		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent step=Recipient
5	step		bears = bear			nom step «act 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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