Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 123
Songs were sung and ditties were played on the guitar; presently the Salterello sounded, and the merry dance began.
Who acts: Salterello, merry dance · What happens: sing, play, sound, begin · To what, where: Songs, ditties, guitar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Salterello, merry dance), 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 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sung | aux:pass |
| 3 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 played | cc |
| 5 | ditties | ditty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 played | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 played | aux:pass |
| 7 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sung | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 guitar | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guitar | det |
| 10 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 played | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sounded | punct |
| 12 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 15 sounded | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Salterello | det |
| 14 | Salterello | Salterello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sounded | nsubj |
| 15 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sung | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dance | det |
| 19 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dance | amod |
| 20 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 began | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sounded | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · passive | Songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play | past · passive | ditties | the guitar | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | the Salterello | presently property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the merry dance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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