Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 43

She and they were children again, playing together.

Who acts: insects, light · What happens: be, play · To what, where: children

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 (insects, light), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 playing	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 children	cc
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 children	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 children	cop
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 She	conj
6	again	again	ADV	_	1 She	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
8	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 playing	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	insects = insect	children					tree rules
2	play	gerund	light					together property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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