Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 36
The carriage rolled on, and the peasants resumed their dancing.
Who acts: carriage, peasants · What happens: roll on, resume, dance · To what, where: carriage, dancing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage, peasants), 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 | 2 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resumed | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 carriage | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 rolled | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resumed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 resumed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peasants | det |
| 8 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 resumed | nsubj |
| 9 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dancing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resumed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll on | participle | the carriage not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | resume | past | the carriage | peasants's dancing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | dance | peasants = peasant | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=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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