Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 74
A black domino, with an acacia blossom in his cap, danced with Psyche.
What happens: dance · To what, where: black domino
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 domino | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 domino | amod |
| 3 | domino | domino | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blossom | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 blossom | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 blossom | det |
| 7 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blossom | compound |
| 8 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 domino | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cap | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cap | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blossom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 danced | punct |
| 13 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 domino | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Psyche | case |
| 15 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 danced | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 domino | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle | a black domino not said here | with Psyche | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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