Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 12

Let us leave the soul of the dead to their ball-play with the heads of the walruses,' they thought in their superstition, and they turned their whole attention to the song and dance.

Who acts: you, us, inhabitants · What happens: let, leave, think, turn, play, attend · To what, where: us, soul, ball play, superstition, whole attention, song

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, inhabitants), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soul	det
5	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 dead	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dead	det
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soul	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 play	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 play	nmod:poss
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ball	punct
13	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heads	det
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 play	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 walruses	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walruses	det
19	walruses	walrus	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heads	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 superstition	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 superstition	nmod:poss
26	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 turned	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 attention	nmod:poss
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 attention	amod
33	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 song	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 song	det
36	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 dance	cc
38	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 song	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us				tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	us not said here	the soul of the dead	inhabitants's ball play with the heads of the walruses			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soul=Theme to play=Recipient
3	think speech: other	past	inhabitants = inhabitant			inhabitants's superstition		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	inhabitants = inhabitant	inhabitants's whole attention		the song and dance		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to song=Trajectory
5	play		inhabitants = inhabitant				with the heads of the walruses	nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl
6	attend		inhabitants = inhabitant					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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