Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 68

And then they spun round so quickly that the death-horse and the grave-pig became sick and giddy, and were obliged to leave the table.

Who acts: dances, death horse · What happens: spin round, become, oblige, leave · To what, where: table

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 (dances, death horse), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 spun	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spun	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spun	nsubj
4	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 spun	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 quickly	advmod
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 spun	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 became	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horse	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 death	punct
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pig	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pig	det
15	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pig	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 grave	punct
17	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horse	conj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spun	advcl
19	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 giddy	cc
21	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sick	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 obliged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 obliged	cc
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 obliged	aux:pass
25	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spun	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 leave	mark
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 obliged	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 table	det
29	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leave	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spin round	past	dances = dance		then	quickly, round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the death horse and the grave pig			sick property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	oblige	past · passive	dances = dance not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
4	leave	to-infinitive	dances = dance not said here	the table			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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