Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 31

He was now a golden top, and whirled and danced about till he hummed quite loud, and was something worth looking at; but one day he leaped too high, and then he, also, was gone.

Who acts: love · What happens: be, whirl, dance, hum, look, leap · To what, where: golden top, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 top	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 top	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 top	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 top	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 top	amod
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whirled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 whirled	cc
9	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 top	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 danced	cc
11	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whirled	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 danced	advmod
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 hummed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hummed	nsubj
15	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 danced	advcl
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 loud	advmod
17	loud	loud	ADV	_	15 hummed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 something	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 something	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 something	cop
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 hummed	obl
22	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 something	amod
23	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 worth	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	23 looking	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 leaped	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 leaped	cc
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 day	nummod
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaped	obl:unmarked
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 leaped	nsubj
30	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whirled	conj
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 high	advmod
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leaped	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 gone	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 gone	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 gone	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 gone	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 he	punct
38	also	also	ADV	_	41 gone	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 also	punct
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 gone	cop
41	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 whirled	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 top	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	love	a golden top	now		tree rules
2	whirl	past	love not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	dance	past	love not said here			about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hum	past	love			loud property	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
5	is a	past		something			tree rules
6	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	leap	past	love		day	high property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	love		then	gone property	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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