Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 181
I saw the people outside running and jumping about on the ice; I saw the beautiful flags waving in the wind; I heard the boys shouting, 'Hurrah!' and the lads and lasses singing, and everything full of merriment and joy.
Who acts: I, beautiful flags, boys, lads · What happens: see, run, jump about, wave, hear, shout · To what, where: people, ice, beautiful flags, boys, Hurrah
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, beautiful flags, boys, lads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 jumping | cc |
| 8 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 running | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 jumping | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ice | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ice | det |
| 12 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumping | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flags | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flags | amod |
| 18 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 flags | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waving | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 heard | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boys | det |
| 27 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 heard | obj |
| 28 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 heard | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hurrah | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hurrah | punct |
| 31 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 shouting | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hurrah | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Hurrah | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 singing | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 lads | det |
| 36 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 singing | nsubj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lasses | cc |
| 38 | lasses | lass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 lads | conj |
| 39 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 heard | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 everything | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 everything | cc |
| 42 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 heard | parataxis |
| 43 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 everything | amod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 merriment | case |
| 45 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 full | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 joy | cc |
| 47 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 merriment | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | the people | outside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump about | gerund | I not said here | the ice | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | see | past | I | the beautiful flags | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flag=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wave | gerund | the beautiful flags not said here | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hear | past | I | the boys | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | shout speech: express | gerund | the boys not said here | Hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic | ||||
| 8 | sing speech: express | gerund | the lads and lasses | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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