Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 24
All is dance, song and sound: the masks will carry you away with them, and the daughters of vanity, clad in silk and satin, will come with loose hair and alluring charms; but tear yourself away if you can!
Who acts: masks, daughters · What happens: be, carry away, clad, come, allure, tear · To what, where: dance, you, vanity, silk, charms, yourself
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masks, daughters), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 dance | det |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dance | cop |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 song | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 song | punct |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sound | cc |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 song | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 carry | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 masks | det |
| 10 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | aux |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 song | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 carry | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 come | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 daughters | det |
| 20 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 come | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 vanity | case |
| 22 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughters | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 clad | punct |
| 24 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 vanity | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 silk | case |
| 26 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clad | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 satin | cc |
| 28 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 silk | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 daughters | punct |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | aux |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 carry | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 hair | case |
| 33 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hair | amod |
| 34 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 alluring | cc |
| 36 | alluring | allure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 hair | conj |
| 37 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 alluring | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 tear | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 tear | cc |
| 40 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 carry | conj |
| 41 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 tear | obj |
| 42 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 tear | advmod |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 can | mark |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 can | nsubj |
| 45 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 away | advcl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all dance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry away | future | the masks | you | with glasses = glass; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | clad | participle | vanity not said here | silk and satin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | future | the daughters of vanity | with loose hair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | allure | gerund | the daughters of vanity not said here | charms | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient | ||||
| 6 | tear | infinitive | the masks not said here | yourself | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location yourself=Theme |
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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