Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 43
The red spiders sprang here and there on the walls quite as merrily, and the flowers of fire appeared as if they were throwing out sparks.
Who acts: red spiders, flowers · What happens: spring, appear, throw out · To what, where: walls, sparks
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 (red spiders, flowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spiders | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spiders | amod |
| 3 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 there | cc |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 here | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 walls | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | obl |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 merrily | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 merrily | advmod |
| 13 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 appeared | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flowers | nmod |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 throwing | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 throwing | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 throwing | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 throwing | aux |
| 25 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 appeared | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 throwing | compound:prt |
| 27 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 throwing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the red spiders | the walls; here | merrily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the flowers of fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throw out | past · progressive | flowers = flower | sparks | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=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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