Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 103
Why, running about the fields, and blowing out the will-o'-the-wisps, who so good-naturedly came and brought their torches.
Who acts: wisps · What happens: run, blow out, come, bring · To what, where: torches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisps), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 running | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 running | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blowing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blowing | cc |
| 9 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 running | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 blowing | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 o | det |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 o | aux |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 o | punct |
| 14 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 blowing | obl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 o | punct |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wisps | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wisps | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 the | punct |
| 19 | wisps | wisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ' | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 came | nsubj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 came | advcl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 good | punct |
| 25 | naturedly | naturedly | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wisps | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 brought | cc |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 torches | nmod:poss |
| 30 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 brought | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | about the fields | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | blow out | gerund | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the wisps | naturedly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | the wisps not said here | lads's torches | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent torch=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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