Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 100
The charcoal burners sing the old songs, to which we have danced as children.
Who acts: charcoal burners, we · What happens: sing, dance · To what, where: old songs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charcoal burners, we), 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 burners | det |
| 2 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burners | compound |
| 3 | burners | burner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 songs | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 songs | amod |
| 7 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 danced | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 danced | obl |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 danced | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 danced | aux |
| 13 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sing | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 danced | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the charcoal burners | the old songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | present · perfect | we | as children | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to which=Trajectory |
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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