Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 109
But the old goblin danced about the room with his young bride, and exchanged boots with her, which is more fashionable than exchanging rings.
Who acts: old goblin · What happens: dance, exchange, be · To what, where: boots, rings
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 (old goblin), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 danced | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goblin | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goblin | amod |
| 4 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | nsubj |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bride | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bride | amod |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 exchanged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 exchanged | cc |
| 15 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 danced | conj |
| 16 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 exchanged | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 exchanged | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fashionable | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 fashionable | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 more | cop |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 fashionable | advmod |
| 23 | fashionable | fashionable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 exchanged | parataxis |
| 24 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 25 exchanging | mark |
| 25 | exchanging | exchange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 fashionable | advcl |
| 26 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 exchanging | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle | the old goblin | about the room with glass's young bride | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Location | ||||
| 2 | exchange | past | the old goblin not said here | boots | with bride | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent boot=Theme with she=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exchange | gerund | the old goblin not said here | rings | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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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