Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 136
Did sweet children play there, and relate their dreams?”
Who acts: sweet children, heroes · What happens: play, relate, dream · To what, where: dreams
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet children, heroes), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sweet | aux |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | nsubj |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 play | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 relate | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 relate | cc |
| 8 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 play | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 relate | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | sweet children | there | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | relate | infinitive | sweet children not said here | heroes's dreams | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dream | heroes = hero | nom dream «cognition 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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