Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 73
They were rocking themselves two together on the large dew-drops with which the leaves and the high grass were sprinkled.
Who acts: elves · What happens: rock, sprinkle · To what, where: elves, large dew drops, leaves
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 (elves), 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 | 3 rocking | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rocking | aux |
| 3 | rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 rocking | obj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 rocking | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 rocking | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 drops | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 drops | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drops | amod |
| 10 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drops | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dew | punct |
| 12 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rocking | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sprinkled | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaves | det |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sprinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grass | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grass | det |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grass | amod |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaves | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 22 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 drops | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rocking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rock | past · progressive | elves = elf | elves = elf | the large dew drops | together property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | sprinkle | past · passive | the leaves and the high grass | with the large dew drops | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme |
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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