Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 43
Two will-o'-the-wisps came jumping in, one quicker than the other, so of course, one arrived first. "
Who acts: Two, one · What happens: come, jump in, arrive
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 (Two, one), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 came | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | aux |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 came | mark |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 o | punct |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 o | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wisps | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 the | punct |
| 9 | wisps | wisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 came | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 jumping | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quicker | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 quicker | nummod |
| 15 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 jumping | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 other | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 quicker | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 arrived | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 arrived | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 of | fixed |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 arrived | punct |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 arrived | nsubj |
| 25 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 26 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 arrived | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | Two | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | jump in | gerund | Two not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | one | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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