Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 72
There was eating and drinking, dancing and jumping everywhere.
What happens: be, eat, drink, dance, jump
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 was | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drinking | cc |
| 5 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 eating | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dancing | punct |
| 7 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 eating | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jumping | cc |
| 9 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 dancing | conj |
| 10 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 jumping | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | drink | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | jump | gerund | everywhere property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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