Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 21

The elfin maidens we're already dancing on the elf hill, and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which look very pretty to those who like such things.

Who acts: elfin maidens, invitations, mist · What happens: dance, weave, look, like · To what, where: elf hill, shawls, moonshine, such things

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 (elfin maidens, invitations, mist), 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 maidens	det
2	elfin	elfin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maidens	amod
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dancing	nsubj
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dancing	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dancing	aux
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 dancing	advmod
7	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
10	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hill	compound
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dancing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 danced	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 danced	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 danced	nsubj
15	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dancing	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 shawls	case
17	shawls	shawl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 danced	obl
18	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 shawls	acl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 moonshine	case
20	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 woven	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mist	cc
22	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 moonshine	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 look	nsubj
25	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mist	acl:relcl
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 pretty	advmod
27	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	25 look	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 those	case
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 look	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 like	nsubj
31	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 those	acl:relcl
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 like	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	present · progressive	the elfin maidens		the elf hill		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location
2	dance	past	invitations = invitation		shawls		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shawl=Location
3	weave	participle		shawls not said here	moonshine and mist		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from moonshine=Trajectory
4	look	present	mist			to mist; pretty property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to that=Theme
5	like	present		such things			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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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