Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 65

Then the elfin girls had to dance, first in the usual way, and then with stamping feet, which they performed very well; then followed the artistic and solo dance.

Who acts: elfin girls, stamping feet · What happens: have, dance, stamp, perform, follow · To what, where: usual way, artistic dance

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 girls, stamping feet), 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	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
3	elfin	elfin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	compound
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dance	mark
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 first	punct
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 dance	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dance	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feet	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feet	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 feet	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 feet	case
18	stamping	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 feet	amod
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 performed	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 performed	nsubj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 performed	nsubj
23	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 feet	acl:relcl
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 well	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 performed	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 followed	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 followed	advmod
28	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dance	det
30	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dance	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 solo	cc
32	solo	solo	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 artistic	conj
33	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 followed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the elfin girls			then		tree rules
2	dance	to-infinitive	the elfin girls not said here		the usual way		first property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location
3	stamp	gerund						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	perform	past	stamping feet				well property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	past	the elfin girls not said here	the artistic dance		then		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=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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