Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 194
They heard the song of the priests, and saw the wild dance of the savage to the sound of the drums and trumpets of bone; the pyramids of Egypt rising to the clouds; columns and sphinxes, overthrown and buried in the sand, followed in their turn; while the northern lights flashed out over the extinguished volcanoes of the north, in fireworks none could imitate.
Who acts: animals, pyramids, northern lights, none, priests · What happens: hear, see, rise, overthrow, bury, follow · To what, where: song, wild dance, clouds, columns, sand, pyramids
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 (animals, pyramids, northern lights, none), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 priests | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priests | det |
| 7 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 song | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dance | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dance | amod |
| 13 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 savage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 savage | det |
| 16 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dance | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sound | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 savage | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 drums | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 drums | det |
| 22 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sound | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 trumpets | cc |
| 24 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drums | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bone | case |
| 26 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trumpets | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 pyramids | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 pyramids | det |
| 29 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Egypt | case |
| 31 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 pyramids | nmod |
| 32 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 pyramids | acl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 clouds | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 clouds | det |
| 35 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rising | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 columns | punct |
| 37 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 pyramids | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 sphinxes | cc |
| 39 | sphinxes | sphinx | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 columns | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 overthrown | punct |
| 41 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 columns | acl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 buried | cc |
| 43 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 overthrown | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 sand | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sand | det |
| 46 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 buried | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 followed | punct |
| 48 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 pyramids | acl:relcl |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 turn | case |
| 50 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 turn | nmod:poss |
| 51 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 followed | obl |
| 52 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 flashed | punct |
| 53 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 57 flashed | mark |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 lights | det |
| 55 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 lights | amod |
| 56 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 flashed | nsubj |
| 57 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 58 | out | out | ADV | _ | 57 flashed | advmod |
| 59 | over | over | ADP | _ | 62 volcanoes | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 volcanoes | det |
| 61 | extinguished | extinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 volcanoes | amod |
| 62 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 flashed | obl |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 north | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 north | det |
| 65 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 volcanoes | nmod |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 fireworks | punct |
| 67 | in | in | ADP | _ | 68 fireworks | case |
| 68 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 flashed | obl |
| 69 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 71 imitate | nsubj |
| 70 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 71 imitate | aux |
| 71 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 68 fireworks | acl:relcl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | animals = animal | the song of the priests | the pyramids of Egypt and columns and sphinxes obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | animals = animal not said here | the wild dance of the savage to the sound of the drums and trumpets of bone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the pyramids of Egypt and columns and sphinxes not said here | the clouds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | overthrow | participle | columns and sphinxes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bury | participle | the sand | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination | |||||
| 6 | follow | participle | the pyramids of Egypt and columns and sphinxes not said here | animals's turn | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in turn=Location | ||||
| 7 | flash out | past | the northern lights | the extinguished volcanoes of the north | in fireworks; out property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over volcano=Location | |||
| 8 | imitate | could | none | fireworks not said here | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Theme | ||||
| 9 | sing | the priests | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 10 | dance | the savage to the sound of the drums and trumpets of bone | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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