Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 45
The wild swans sing at Christmas-time on the open water, while in the old hall the guests by the fireside gladly listen to songs and to old legends.
Who acts: wild swans, guests · What happens: sing, listen · To what, where: open water, old hall
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 (wild swans, guests), 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 swans | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swans | amod |
| 3 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 time | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Christmas | punct |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hall | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 hall | mark |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hall | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hall | amod |
| 18 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guests | det |
| 20 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 listen | nsubj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 fireside | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fireside | det |
| 23 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guests | nmod |
| 24 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 25 listen | advmod |
| 25 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hall | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 songs | case |
| 27 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 listen | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 legends | cc |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 legends | case |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 legends | amod |
| 31 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 songs | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the wild swans | the open water | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Location | |||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | the guests by the fireside | the old hall not said here | to songs and old legends; gladly property | tree rules |
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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