Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 31
Then those came marching up, in little bands, who are only busy with their mouths.
Who acts: those, little bands · What happens: come, march up, be · To what, where: little bands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those, little bands), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 marching | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bands | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bands | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bands | amod |
| 9 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 marching | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 busy | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 busy | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 busy | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 busy | advmod |
| 14 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bands | amod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 mouths | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 busy | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | those | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | march up | gerund | those not said here | little bands | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in band=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | present | little bands | with bands's mouths; busy property | 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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