Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 14

And in their white furs they danced about in the circle, till you might fancy it was a polar bear's ball.

Who acts: song, you, circle · What happens: dance, fancy, be · To what, where: white furs, ball

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 (song, you, circle), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 danced	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 furs	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 furs	nmod:poss
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 furs	amod
5	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 danced	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 danced	nsubj
7	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 danced	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 circle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 circle	det
11	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 danced	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fancy	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 fancy	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 fancy	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fancy	aux
16	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 danced	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ball	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ball	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bear	det
20	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bear	amod
21	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ball	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 bear	case
23	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fancy	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past	song		song's white furs	in the circle; about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location
2	fancy	might	you				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	circle	a polar bear's ball			tree rules

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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