Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 67

No one could tell where the dance begun, or where it ended, nor indeed which were legs and which were arms, for they were all flying about together, like the shavings in a saw-pit!

Who acts: one, dance, goblin, legs, dances · What happens: tell, begin, end, be, fly · To what, where: legs, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, dance, goblin, legs), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 begun	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dance	det
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begun	nsubj
8	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tell	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ended	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 ended	cc
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 ended	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ended	nsubj
13	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 legs	punct
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 legs	cc
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 legs	advmod
17	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 legs	det
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 legs	cop
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ended	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 arms	cc
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 arms	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 arms	cop
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 legs	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flying	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 flying	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flying	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 flying	aux
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 flying	advmod
29	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ended	advcl
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 together	case
31	together	together	ADV	_	29 flying	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shavings	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 shavings	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shavings	det
35	shavings	shaving	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flying	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 pit	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pit	det
38	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pit	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
40	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shavings	nmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	no one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	begin	participle	the dance			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	end	past	goblin			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	past		which legs and arms	indeed property	tree rules
5	is a	past	which legs and arms	arms		tree rules
6	fly	past · progressive	dances = dance		like the shavings in a saw pit; all property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about together=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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