Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 152
Then I can play again with the light loose sand on the place here, and whirl the dust over the land and through the air.
Who acts: I · What happens: play, whirl · To what, where: dust, land
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 play | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 play | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sand | det |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sand | compound |
| 9 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sand | amod |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sand | nmod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 place | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whirl | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 whirl | cc |
| 17 | whirl | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dust | det |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whirl | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whirl | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 air | cc |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 air | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 air | det |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 land | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | can | I | then; again | with the light loose sand on the place | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sand=Theme | |||
| 2 | whirl | present | I not said here | the dust | the land and the air | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme over land=Destination |
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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