Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 21
They were as merry as ever at sunset and in the moonlight, but I took no part in the merry-making.
Who acts: Lads, I · What happens: be, take, make · To what, where: part
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, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 merry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 merry | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 merry | advmod |
| 4 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 sunset | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 sunset | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sunset | case |
| 8 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 merry | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moonlight | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moonlight | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moonlight | det |
| 12 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunset | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 merry | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 part | det |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 making | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 making | det |
| 21 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 making | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 merry | punct |
| 23 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 took | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 merry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lads = lad | sunset | merry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | I | no part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | I not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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