Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 109
"All this," they said, "the Champ de Mars offers;" and around the great richly-spread table the crowd of human beings moves like a busy swarm of ants, on foot or in little carriages, for not all feet are equal to such a fatiguing journey.
Who acts: grottoes, Champ Mars, crowd, feet · What happens: say, offer, spread, move, not be, fatigue · To what, where: this, great spread table · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (grottoes, Champ Mars, crowd, feet), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 this | det |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 offers | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 offers | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mars | det |
| 11 | Champ | Champ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mars | compound |
| 12 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Champ | flat |
| 13 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 offers | nsubj |
| 14 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 offers | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 offers | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 moves | cc |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 table | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 table | amod |
| 21 | richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spread | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 richly | punct |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 table | amod |
| 24 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 moves | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 crowd | det |
| 26 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 moves | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 beings | case |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 beings | amod |
| 29 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 crowd | nmod |
| 30 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 offers | conj |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 swarm | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 swarm | det |
| 33 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 swarm | amod |
| 34 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 moves | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 ants | case |
| 36 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 swarm | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 foot | punct |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 foot | case |
| 39 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ants | conj |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 carriages | cc |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 carriages | case |
| 42 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 carriages | amod |
| 43 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 ants | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 equal | punct |
| 45 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 50 equal | mark |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 equal | advmod |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 feet | det |
| 48 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 equal | nsubj |
| 49 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 equal | cop |
| 50 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 moves | conj |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 journey | case |
| 52 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 55 journey | det:predet |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 journey | det |
| 54 | fatiguing | fatigue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 55 journey | amod |
| 55 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 equal | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | grottoes = grotto | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | offer in a quote | present | the Champ Mars | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spread | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | move | present | the crowd of human beings | the great spread table | like a busy swarm of ants and foot or little carriages | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around table=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | not is | present | all feet | to such fatiguing journey; equal property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fatigue | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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