Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 61
As if stung by tarantulas, they sprang, laughed, rejoiced, as if in their ecstacies they were going to embrace all the world.
Who acts: heads · What happens: sting, spring, laugh, rejoice, go, embrace · To what, where: ecstacies, world
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 (heads), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stung | mark |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 stung | mark |
| 3 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sprang | advcl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 tarantulas | case |
| 5 | tarantulas | tarantula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stung | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stung | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprang | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rejoiced | punct |
| 12 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 laughed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 going | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 going | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ecstacies | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ecstacies | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ecstacies | ecstacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 going | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 rejoiced | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 embrace | mark |
| 23 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | xcomp |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 world | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 embrace | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | participle | heads = head not said here | by tarantulas | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | heads = head | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | heads = head not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | past | heads = head not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | heads = head | heads's ecstacies | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | embrace | to-infinitive | heads = head not said here | all world | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Co-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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