Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 13
"No! the poor little ones are playing with light, childish spirits.
Who acts: poor little ones · What happens: play · To what, where: childish spirits
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 (poor little ones), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 playing | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ones | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 playing | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 playing | aux |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spirits | punct |
| 13 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirits | amod |
| 14 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 playing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | present · progressive | the poor little ones | childish spirits | with light | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with light=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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