Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 74

"Here are maidens, young and fair, Dancing in the summer air; Like two spinning-wheels at play, Pretty maidens dance away-- Dance the spring and summer through Till the sole falls from your shoe."

Who acts: Pretty maidens, Dance · What happens: be, dance, spin, dance away, fall · To what, where: maidens, summer air, shoe

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 (Pretty maidens, Dance), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 maidens	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 maidens	cop
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 young	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fair	cc
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 young	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Dancing	punct
10	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 young	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 air	compound
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Dancing	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wheels	punct
16	Like	like	ADP	_	20 wheels	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 wheels	nummod
18	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wheels	advcl
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 spinning	punct
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 young	parataxis
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 play	case
22	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wheels	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dance	punct
24	Pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 maidens	amod
25	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dance	nsubj
26	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wheels	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 dance	advmod
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 Dance	punct
29	Dance	Dance	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 falls	nsubj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spring	det
31	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 falls	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 summer	cc
33	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spring	conj
34	through	through	ADP	_	37 sole	case
35	Till	till	ADP	_	37 sole	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sole	det
37	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spring	nmod
38	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dance	advcl
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 shoe	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 shoe	nmod:poss
41	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 falls	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		maidens	here		tree rules
2	dance in a quote	gerund			the summer air		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
3	spin in a quote	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	dance away in a quote	present	Pretty maidens			away property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall in a quote	present	Dance		your shoe		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shoe=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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