Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 59

Beautiful girls in festive attire, with pleasant smiles on their lips, and the light spirit of youth in their hearts--"Marys," with roses in their hair, but without carriage and postilion--flitted to and fro in the wild dance.

What happens: flit, fro · To what, where: carriage, wild dance

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: 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	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 girls	amod
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 attire	case
4	festive	festive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 attire	amod
5	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girls	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smiles	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 smiles	case
8	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smiles	amod
9	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 girls	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 lips	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lips	nmod:poss
12	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 smiles	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spirit	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spirit	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spirit	det
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spirit	compound
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girls	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 youth	case
19	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spirit	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hearts	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hearts	nmod:poss
22	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 youth	nmod
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 Marys	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Marys	punct
25	Marys	Marys	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girls	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girls	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 roses	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 roses	case
29	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 girls	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hair	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hair	nmod:poss
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 roses	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 carriage	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 carriage	cc
35	without	without	ADP	_	36 carriage	case
36	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girls	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 postilion	cc
38	postilion	postilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 carriage	conj
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 flitted	punct
40	flitted	flit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 carriage	acl
41	to	to	ADP	_	40 flitted	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fro	cc
43	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 flitted	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 dance	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 dance	det
46	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 dance	amod
47	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fro	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 girls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flit	participle		carriage and postilion not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive				the wild dance			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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