Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 117
Were there lovely children at play, who related their dreams?"
Who acts: play, children · What happens: be, relate, dream · To what, where: play, dreams
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 there | cop |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 children | amod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 there | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 play | case |
| 6 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 there | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 related | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 related | nsubj |
| 9 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 play | acl:relcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 related | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | play | lovely children obl; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | past | play | children's dreams | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dream | children = child | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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