Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 101
I have just come from China, where I danced round the porcelain tower till all the bells jingled again.
Who acts: I, bells · What happens: come, dance, jingle · To what, where: China, porcelain tower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bells), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 China | case |
| 6 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 danced | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 danced | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 danced | nsubj |
| 10 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 13 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tower | compound |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 danced | obl |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 jingled | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 bells | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bells | det |
| 18 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 jingled | nsubj |
| 19 | jingled | jingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 danced | advcl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 jingled | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | China | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from china=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | I | the porcelain tower | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round tower=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | jingle | past | all bells | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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