Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 19

The little mice ran about the floor, they dragged the nettles to her feet, to help as well as they could; and the thrush sat outside the grating of the window, and sang to her the whole night long, as sweetly as possible, to keep up her spirits.

Who acts: little mice, mice, thrush · What happens: run, drag, help, sit, sing, keep up · To what, where: nettles, feet, grating, Eliza, spirits

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (little mice, mice, thrush), 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 mice	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mice	amod
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dragged	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dragged	nsubj
10	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nettles	det
12	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dragged	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dragged	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 help	mark
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dragged	advcl
19	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	18 help	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 as	fixed
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 as	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thrush	det
27	thrush	thrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	nsubj
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
29	outside	outside	ADP	_	31 grating	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grating	det
31	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 window	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 window	det
34	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grating	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sang	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sang	cc
37	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sang	obl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 night	det
41	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 night	amod
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sang	obl:unmarked
43	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 sang	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sweetly	punct
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 sweetly	advmod
46	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	37 sang	advmod
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 possible	mark
48	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sweetly	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 keep	punct
50	to	to	PART	_	51 keep	mark
51	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 sang	conj
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 keep	compound:prt
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 spirits	nmod:poss
54	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 keep	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the little mice					about the floor	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about floor=Trajectory
2	drag	past	mice = mouse	the nettles		Eliza's feet			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nettle=Theme to foot=Destination
3	help	to-infinitive	mice = mouse not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	the thrush			the grating of the window			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside grating=Location
5	sing speech: express	past	the little mice not said here		Eliza		night	long, sweetly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
6	keep up	to-infinitive	the little mice not said here	Eliza's spirits					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spirit=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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