Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 57
Such music it was, that horses, carriages, trees, and houses would have danced, if they had known how.
Who acts: that · What happens: horse, dance, know · To what, where: houses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 music | amod |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 music | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 horses | punct |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 horses | nsubj |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 music | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carriages | punct |
| 9 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horses | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trees | punct |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horses | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 danced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 danced | cc |
| 14 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 danced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 danced | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 danced | aux |
| 17 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 horses | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 known | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 known | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 known | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 known | aux |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 danced | conj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 known | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 music | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horse | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | dance | would · perfect · passive | houses | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Houses = house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
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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