Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 7
All the will-o'-the-wisps are ordered to be there to hold a torch dance, as it is called.
What happens: order, be, hold, call · To what, where: wisps, torch dance, hill · 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: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 ordered | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ordered | det |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ordered | aux |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 5 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 12 ordered | mark |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wisps | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wisps | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 the | punct |
| 10 | wisps | wisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ordered | aux:pass |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 there | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 there | cop |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 ordered | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hold | mark |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 there | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dance | det |
| 19 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dance | compound |
| 20 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 called | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hold | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | future · passive | the wisps | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | a torch dance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | hill | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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