Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 212
In the evening, the princess and the shadow danced together in the large ball-room.
Who acts: princess · What happens: dance · To what, where: large ball room
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 (princess), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 danced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 danced | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shadow | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shadow | det |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 princess | conj |
| 10 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 danced | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 room | amod |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ball | punct |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 danced | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the princess and the shadow | the large ball room | evening | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
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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