Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 10

They dance on the green rampart, just on the place where, according to the old story, the ground always sank in, and where a sportive, frolicsome child had been lured by means of flowers, toys and sweetmeats into an open grave ready dug for it, and which was afterwards closed over the child; and from that moment, the old story says, the ground gave way no longer, the mound remained firm and fast, and was quickly covered with the green turf.

Who acts: cheeks, old story, ground, mound · What happens: dance, accord, sink in, lure, mean, close · To what, where: green rampart, sportive frolicsome child, open grave, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, old story, ground, mound), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dance	nsubj
2	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 rampart	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rampart	det
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rampart	amod
6	rampart	rampart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dance	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 place	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 place	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 place	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dance	parataxis
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 sank	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 story	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 story	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 story	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 story	amod
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sank	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ground	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 story	conj
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 sank	advmod
23	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 place	advcl
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 sank	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 means	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 means	cc
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 lured	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 child	det
29	sportive	sportive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 child	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sportive	punct
31	frolicsome	frolicsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 child	amod
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lured	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 lured	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 lured	aux:pass
35	lured	lure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 means	nsubj
36	by	by	ADP	_	35 lured	obl
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dance	parataxis
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 flowers	case
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 means	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 toys	punct
41	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 flowers	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sweetmeats	cc
43	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 flowers	conj
44	into	into	ADP	_	47 grave	case
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 grave	det
46	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 grave	amod
47	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 means	obl
48	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dug	amod
49	dug	dug	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 grave	conj
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 it	case
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 dug	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 closed	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 closed	cc
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 closed	nsubj:pass
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 closed	aux:pass
56	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	57 closed	advmod
57	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 means	conj
58	over	over	ADP	_	60 child	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 child	det
60	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 closed	obl
61	;	;	PUNCT	_	70 says	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 says	cc
63	from	from	ADP	_	65 moment	case
64	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	65 moment	det
65	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 says	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 moment	punct
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 story	det
68	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 story	amod
69	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 says	nsubj
70	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dance	parataxis
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 gave	punct
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 ground	det
73	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 gave	nsubj
74	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 says	ccomp
75	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 gave	obj
76	no	no	ADV	_	77 longer	advmod
77	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	74 gave	advmod
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 remained	punct
79	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 mound	det
80	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 remained	nsubj
81	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 gave	conj
82	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 remained	xcomp
83	and	and	CCONJ	_	84 fast	cc
84	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 firm	conj
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	89 covered	punct
86	and	and	CCONJ	_	89 covered	cc
87	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	89 covered	aux:pass
88	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	89 covered	advmod
89	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	74 gave	conj
90	with	with	ADP	_	93 turf	case
91	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	93 turf	det
92	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	93 turf	amod
93	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	89 covered	obl
94	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	cheeks = cheek		the green rampart			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rampart=Location
2	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	sink in	past	the old story and the ground				always property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	lure	past · perfect · passive		a sportive frolicsome child				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	mean	present			a open grave and ready dug for dug		of flowers and toys and sweetmeats	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	close	past · passive					over the child; afterwards property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	say speech: assert	present	the old story			moment		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	give	past	the ground	way			long property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
9	remain	past	the mound				firm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	cover	past · passive	the ground not said here				with the green turf; quickly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with turf=Theme

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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