Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 4
Children go through the streets in procession with candles and waving banners, and the sky, lofty and clear with its glittering stars, rises above them.
Who acts: Children · What happens: go, wave, rise · To what, where: streets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 streets | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 streets | det |
| 5 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 procession | case |
| 7 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 candles | case |
| 9 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 banners | cc |
| 11 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 banners | amod |
| 12 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 candles | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lofty | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lofty | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lofty | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lofty | punct |
| 18 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 go | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clear | cc |
| 20 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lofty | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 stars | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 stars | nmod:poss |
| 23 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stars | compound |
| 24 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 clear | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rises | punct |
| 26 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lofty | conj |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rises | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Children | the streets | in procession; with candles and waving banners | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rise | present | Children not said here | above Children = child | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above they=Location |
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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