Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 59
Then they tickled the ladies who waited at table, with the fir-cones, which they carried in their pockets.
Who acts: folks, ladies · What happens: tickle, wait, carry · To what, where: ladies, table, fir cones, pockets
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 (folks, ladies), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tickled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tickled | nsubj |
| 3 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladies | det |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tickled | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cones | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cones | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cones | det |
| 13 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cones | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fir | punct |
| 15 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waited | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 carried | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | nsubj |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cones | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pockets | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carried | obl | |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tickled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tickle | past | folks = folk | the ladies | then | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wait | past | the ladies | table | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | folks = folk | the fir cones | folks's pockets | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in pocket=Location |
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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