Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 5
Sounds of singing and castanets can be heard, and youths and maidens dance upon the flowering acacia trees, while even the beggar sits upon a block of marble, refreshing himself with a juicy melon, and dreamily enjoying life.
Who acts: youths, beggar · What happens: hear, dance, flower, sit, refresh, enjoy · To what, where: Sounds, flowering acacia trees, block, beggar, life
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 (youths, beggar), 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 | Sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 singing | case |
| 3 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sounds | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 castanets | cc |
| 5 | castanets | castanet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 singing | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 heard | aux:pass |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dance | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dance | cc |
| 11 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dance | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 maidens | cc |
| 13 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 youths | conj |
| 14 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 17 | flowering | flower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 trees | amod |
| 18 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | compound |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dance | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sits | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 sits | mark |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 beggar | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beggar | det |
| 24 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sits | nsubj |
| 25 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dance | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 block | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 block | det |
| 28 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sits | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 marble | case |
| 30 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 block | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 refreshing | punct |
| 32 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sits | advcl |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 refreshing | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 melon | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 melon | det |
| 36 | juicy | juicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 melon | amod |
| 37 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 refreshing | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 enjoying | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 enjoying | cc |
| 40 | dreamily | dreamily | ADV | _ | 41 enjoying | advmod |
| 41 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | conj |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 enjoying | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | can · passive | Sounds of singing and castanets | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | dance | present | youths and maidens | the flowering acacia trees | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | flower | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sit | present | the beggar | a block of marble | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon block=Location | ||||
| 5 | refresh | gerund | the beggar not said here | beggar | with a juicy melon | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | enjoy | gerund | life | dreamily property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
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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