Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 98
Hand in hand they danced in the bright moonlight, by the calm lake; but they were human beings, not fairy elves.
Who acts: dresses · What happens: dance, be · To what, where: Hand, bright moonlight, human beings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dresses), 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 | Hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hand | nmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 danced | nsubj |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moonlight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moonlight | det |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moonlight | amod |
| 9 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lake | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 13 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lake | amod |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 beings | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 beings | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beings | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beings | cop |
| 19 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beings | amod |
| 20 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 danced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 elves | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 elves | advmod |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 elves | amod |
| 24 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beings | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | dresses = dress | Hand in hand | the bright moonlight | by the calm lake | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | dresses = dress | human beings and fairy elves | tree rules |
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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