Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 66
The band played music in the streets, the bells rang, and the cake-women took the black crape off the sugar-sticks.
Who acts: band, bells, cake women · What happens: play, ring, take · To what, where: music, streets, black crape, sugar sticks
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 (band, bells, cake women), 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 | 2 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 streets | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rang | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bells | det |
| 10 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rang | nsubj |
| 11 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 15 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 women | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cake | punct |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rang | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crape | det |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crape | amod |
| 21 | crape | crape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 sticks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sticks | det |
| 24 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sticks | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 sugar | punct |
| 26 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the band | music | the streets | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme | |||
| 2 | ring | past | the bells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the cake women | the black crape | the sugar sticks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent crape=Theme off stick=Initial_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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