Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 3
All the audience applauded her, and threw wreaths of flowers at her; and every time she went away they called for her again, so that she was always coming and going.
Who acts: audience, wreaths · What happens: applaud, throw, go away, call, come, go · To what, where: her, wreaths, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (audience, wreaths), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 audience | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 audience | det |
| 3 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 applauded | nsubj |
| 4 | applauded | applaud | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 applauded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 applauded | parataxis |
| 9 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wreaths | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | acl:relcl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 applauded | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | obl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 coming | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 coming | advmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 coming | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 coming | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 coming | aux |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 32 coming | advmod |
| 32 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 applauded | advcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 going | cc |
| 34 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 coming | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 applauded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | applaud | past | all audience | her = she | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | wreaths of flowers | at audience | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme at she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | audience | every time not said here | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 4 | call | past | wreaths = wreath | again; time | for audience | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient | |||
| 5 | come | past · progressive | audience | always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | gerund | audience not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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