Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 194

The little elf-maidens whirled round three times with the rest, that they might not appear proud, but they preferred dancing with one another.

Who acts: little elf maidens, maiden · What happens: whirl, not appear, prefer, dance · To what, where: little elf maidens

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little elf maidens, maiden), 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	5 maidens	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maidens	amod
3	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maidens	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 elf	punct
5	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 appear	nsubj
6	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 maidens	acl
7	round	round	ADV	_	8 three	advmod
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 whirled	obl:unmarked
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 rest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whirled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 appear	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 appear	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 appear	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 appear	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 appear	advmod
18	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 appear	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 preferred	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 preferred	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 preferred	nsubj
23	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 appear	conj
24	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 preferred	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 dancing	obl
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	fixed
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	whirl	participle		the little elf maidens not said here	time	with the rest	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	not appear	might	the little elf maidens			proud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prefer	past	maiden				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	dance not said to happen	gerund	maiden not said here			with one	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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