Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 16

Those Greenlanders who had quarrelled stepped forward, and the offended person chanted forth the faults of his adversary in an extempore song, turning them sharply into ridicule, to the sound of the pipe and the measure of the dance.

Who acts: Greenlanders, offended person, faults · What happens: quarrell, step forward, chant, turn, fault, measure · To what, where: faults, ridicule, adversary, dance

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 (Greenlanders, offended person, faults), 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 Greenlanders	det
2	Greenlanders	greenlander	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 quarrelled	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarrelled	aux
5	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Greenlanders	acl:relcl
6	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 quarrelled	xcomp
7	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 stepped	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 person	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 person	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 person	det
11	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 person	amod
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Greenlanders	appos
13	chanted	chant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 person	acl
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 chanted	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 faults	det
16	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 chanted	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 adversary	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 adversary	nmod:poss
19	adversary	adversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 faults	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 song	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 song	det
22	extempore	extempore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 song	compound
23	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 adversary	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turning	punct
25	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 faults	acl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turning	obj
27	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	25 turning	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 ridicule	case
29	ridicule	ridicule	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turning	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sound	punct
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 sound	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sound	det
33	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turning	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 pipe	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pipe	det
36	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sound	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 measure	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 measure	det
39	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pipe	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 dance	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 dance	det
42	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 measure	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Greenlanders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past · perfect	that Greenlanders				tree rules
2	step forward	participle	that Greenlanders not said here			forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chant	participle	the offended person not said here	the faults of person's adversary in a extempore song		forth property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
4	turn	gerund	the faults of person's adversary in a extempore song not said here	faults = fault	ridicule	to the sound of the pipe and the measure of the dance; sharply property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into ridicule=Source to sound=Trajectory
5	fault			person's adversary in a extempore song			nom fault «act transitive»: of=patient
6	measure			the dance			nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient

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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