Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 20
Lads and lasses danced round the pole, and tried to outdo the violins of the musicians with their singing.
Who acts: Lads · What happens: dance, try, outdo, sing · To what, where: pole, violins
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lads), 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 | Lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lasses | cc |
| 3 | lasses | lass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lads | conj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 pole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pole | det |
| 7 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 danced | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 outdo | mark |
| 12 | outdo | outdo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 violins | det |
| 14 | violins | violin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 outdo | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 musicians | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 musicians | det |
| 17 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 violins | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 singing | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 singing | nmod:poss |
| 20 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 outdo | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Lads and lasses | the pole | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round pole=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Lads and lasses not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | outdo not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lads and lasses not said here | the violins of the musicians | with Lads's singing | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot violin=Theme | |||
| 4 | sing | Lads = lad | nom singing «act 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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