Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 137
As soon as the ceremony was concluded, all the furniture in the room joined in singing a beautiful song, which had been composed by the lead pencil, and which went to the melody of a military tattoo.
Who acts: furniture · What happens: conclude, join, sing, compose, go · To what, where: ceremony, beautiful song, melody
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 (furniture), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 joined | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 concluded | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ceremony | det |
| 5 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concluded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 concluded | aux:pass |
| 7 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 joined | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 concluded | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 furniture | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 furniture | det |
| 11 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 joined | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 furniture | nmod |
| 15 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 singing | mark |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 joined | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 song | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 song | amod |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 singing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 composed | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 composed | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 composed | aux:pass |
| 25 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 song | acl:relcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 pencil | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pencil | det |
| 28 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pencil | compound |
| 29 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 composed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 joined | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 melody | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 melody | det |
| 36 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 tattoo | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tattoo | det |
| 39 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tattoo | amod |
| 40 | tattoo | tattoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 melody | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past · passive | the ceremony | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | join | past | all furniture in the room | soon property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | all furniture in the room not said here | a beautiful song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | compose | past · perfect · passive | a beautiful song | by the lead pencil | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the melody of a military tattoo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to melody=Initial_Location |
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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