Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 32
High towers rose from the castle of the king, and the brightness of many candles streamed from all the windows; within was dance and song, and King Waldemar and the young, richly-attired maids of honor danced together.
Who acts: High towers · What happens: rise, stream, be, attire, dance · To what, where: brightness, castle, many candles, windows, honor
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High towers), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 towers | amod |
| 2 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 castle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brightness | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brightness | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brightness | det |
| 13 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 candles | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 candles | amod |
| 16 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brightness | nmod |
| 17 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 candles | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 windows | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 windows | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 windows | det |
| 21 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 streamed | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dance | punct |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 dance | case |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dance | cop |
| 25 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 song | cc |
| 27 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dance | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Waldemar | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Waldemar | cc |
| 30 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Waldemar | compound |
| 31 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 maids | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 maids | det |
| 34 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 maids | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 young | punct |
| 36 | richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 attired | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 richly | punct |
| 38 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 maids | amod |
| 39 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Waldemar | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 honor | case |
| 41 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 maids | nmod |
| 42 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 honor | acl |
| 43 | together | together | ADV | _ | 42 danced | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | High towers | the brightness of many candles | the castle of the king | King Waldemar and the young attired maids of honor obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | stream | participle | many candles not said here | all windows | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from window=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past | within dance and song | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | attire | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | dance | participle | honor not said here | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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