Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 69
All around him he could see the prettiest little elves dancing in the moonlight, which shone through the trees.
Who acts: man, prettiest little elves, moonlight · What happens: see, dance, shine · To what, where: prettiest little elves, moonlight, trees
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, prettiest little elves, moonlight), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elves | det |
| 8 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 elves | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 elves | amod |
| 10 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 11 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 elves | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moonlight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moonlight | det |
| 14 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dancing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shone | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 shone | nsubj |
| 17 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moonlight | acl:relcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shone | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | man | the prettiest little elves | all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer elf=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dance | gerund | the prettiest little elves not said here | the moonlight | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | the moonlight | the trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location |
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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