Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 79
Then the little elves crept into the flower-buds, and the wind seized the bridges and palaces, and fluttered them in the air like cobwebs.
Who acts: little elves, wind · What happens: creep, seize, flutter · To what, where: flower buds, bridges
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 (little elves, wind), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 crept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elves | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elves | amod |
| 4 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 buds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 buds | det |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buds | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 flower | punct |
| 10 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seized | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | nsubj |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crept | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bridges | det |
| 17 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seized | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 palaces | cc |
| 19 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bridges | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fluttered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fluttered | cc |
| 22 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crept | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fluttered | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 air | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 air | det |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fluttered | obl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 cobwebs | case |
| 28 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 air | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the little elves | the flower buds | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bud=Destination | |||
| 2 | seize | past | the wind | the bridges and palaces | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flutter | past | the little elves not said here | bridges = bridge | in the air like cobwebs | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in air=Topic |
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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