Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 112
On the right stood all the little lady-mice, whispering and giggling, as if they were making game of each other.
Who acts: walls · What happens: stand, whisper, giggle, make · To what, where: little lady mice, right, game
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 right | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 mice | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mice | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mice | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mice | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 10 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whispering | punct |
| 12 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 giggling | cc |
| 14 | giggling | giggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 whispering | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 making | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 making | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 making | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 making | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 making | aux |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 whispering | conj |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 each | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 game | nmod |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | all little lady mice | the right | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme on right=Destination | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | giggle | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | make a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | walls = wall | game of each | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product |
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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