Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 40
The gnats danced round them, and the cockchafers cried "Buz, buz."
Who acts: gnats, cockchafers · What happens: dance, cry · To what, where: Buz
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 (gnats, cockchafers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gnats | det |
| 2 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 danced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cockchafers | det |
| 9 | cockchafers | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Buz | punct |
| 12 | Buz | Buz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 buz | punct |
| 14 | buz | buz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Buz | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the gnats | round fish | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the cockchafers | Buz and buz | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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