Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 42
Then he took the princess by both hands, and they danced with all the little goblins and Jack-o'-lanterns in the room.
Who acts: magician, skeletons · What happens: take, dance · To what, where: princess, room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, skeletons), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hands | det |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 danced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 danced | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 danced | nsubj |
| 12 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 goblins | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 goblins | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goblins | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 goblins | amod |
| 17 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 danced | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Jack | cc |
| 19 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 goblins | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Jack | punct |
| 21 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 lanterns | case |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 lanterns | punct |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ' | punct |
| 24 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 danced | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 danced | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | magician | the princess | then | by both hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination | ||
| 2 | dance | past | skeletons = skeleton | the room | with all little goblins and Jack; of lanterns | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=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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