Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 32
"'Oh no, we won't keep it!' they all cried; and then they seized the skewer, which I gave up to them, and danced with it to the spot where the delicate moss grew, and set it up in the middle of the green.
Who acts: we, people, skewer, delicate moss · What happens: not keep, cry, seize, give up, dance, grow · To what, where: skewer, people, spot, middle
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 (we, people, skewer, delicate moss), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 keep | discourse |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 keep | advmod |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 cried | advmod |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 seized | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seized | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 seized | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seized | nsubj |
| 20 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 skewer | det |
| 22 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seized | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 skewer | acl:relcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 gave | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 danced | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 danced | cc |
| 32 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 danced | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 spot | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 spot | det |
| 37 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 danced | obl |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 grew | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 moss | det |
| 40 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 moss | amod |
| 41 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 grew | nsubj |
| 42 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 spot | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 set | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 set | cc |
| 45 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 keep | conj |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 set | obj |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 set | compound:prt |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 middle | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 middle | det |
| 50 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 set | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 green | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 green | det |
| 53 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 middle | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep in a quote | future | we | skewer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seize in a quote | past | people | the skewer | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skewer=Theme | |||
| 4 | give up in a quote | past | the skewer | people | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | dance in a quote | past | people not said here | the spot | with skewer | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to spot=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | grow in a quote | past | the delicate moss | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | set up in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | skewer | the middle of the green | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in middle=Destination |
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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