Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 70
Can they do anything more than dance and throw about their legs, and make a whirlwind?"
Who acts: dances · What happens: do, dance, throw, make · To what, where: anything, whirlwind
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), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 anything | amod |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 dance | mark |
| 7 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 more | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 throw | cc |
| 9 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dance | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 legs | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 throw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 whirlwind | det |
| 17 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | dances = dance | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dance | infinitive | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | throw | infinitive | about dances's legs | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent about leg=Destination | |||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | dances = dance not said here | a whirlwind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset whirlwind=Product |
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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