Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 69
The soaring upwards of rockets, the splashing of fountains, and the popping of champagne corks accompanied the wild bacchantic dance.
Who acts: soaring upwards, champagne corks · What happens: soar, accompany, splash, pop · To what, where: wild bacchantic dance, fountains
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 (soaring upwards, champagne corks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 upwards | det |
| 2 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 upwards | amod |
| 3 | upwards | upward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 accompanied | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rockets | case |
| 5 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 upwards | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 splashing | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 splashing | det |
| 8 | splashing | splashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rockets | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fountains | case |
| 10 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 splashing | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accompanied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 accompanied | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 popping | det |
| 14 | popping | popping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompanied | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 corks | case |
| 16 | champagne | champagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 corks | compound |
| 17 | corks | cork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 popping | nmod |
| 18 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dance | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dance | amod |
| 21 | bacchantic | bacchantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dance | amod |
| 22 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompanied | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | accompany | past | the soaring upwards of rockets | the wild bacchantic dance | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | splash | fountains | nom splashing «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | pop | champagne corks | nom popping «event intransitive»: of=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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