Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 13
In the midst of the circle, and divested of his furry cloak, stood a Greenlander, with a small pipe, and he played and sang a song about catching the seal, and the chorus around chimed in with, 'Eia, Eia, Ah.'
Who acts: lily, song · What happens: divest, stand, play, sing, catch, chime · To what, where: midst, Greenlander, song, seal, chorus
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 (lily, song), 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 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 divested | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 circle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 circle | det |
| 6 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 divested | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 divested | cc |
| 9 | divested | divest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cloak | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 12 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloak | amod |
| 13 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 divested | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 divested | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Greenlander | det |
| 17 | Greenlander | Greenlander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pipe | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pipe | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pipe | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pipe | amod |
| 22 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 played | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 played | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 played | nsubj |
| 26 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 divested | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sang | cc |
| 28 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 played | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 song | det |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sang | obj |
| 31 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 32 catching | mark |
| 32 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 song | acl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 seal | det |
| 34 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 catching | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 chimed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 chimed | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 chorus | det |
| 38 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 chimed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | around | around | ADP | _ | 40 chimed | mark |
| 40 | chimed | chime | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 divested | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 chimed | obl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 in | fixed |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Eia | punct |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 Eia | punct |
| 45 | Eia | Eia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 chimed | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Eia | punct |
| 47 | Eia | Eia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Eia | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Ah | punct |
| 49 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 40 chimed | discourse |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 divested | punct |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 divested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divest | past | the midst of the circle | of lily's furry cloak | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of cloak=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a Greenlander | with a small pipe | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer greenlander=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | play | past | lily | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | lily not said here | a song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch | gerund | a song not said here | the seal | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme | ||||
| 6 | chime | participle · passive | the chorus | Eia and Eia obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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: «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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