Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 146
In the same courtyard two of the merry children were playing who had danced round the tree at Christmas, and had been so happy.
What happens: play, dance, be · To what, where: same courtyard, Christmas
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 courtyard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtyard | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 courtyard | amod |
| 4 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 playing | obl |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 courtyard | flat |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 8 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 playing | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 playing | aux |
| 11 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 danced | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 danced | aux |
| 14 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 playing | ccomp |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 danced | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Christmas | case |
| 19 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 danced | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 happy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 happy | cc |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 happy | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 happy | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 happy | advmod |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 playing | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | the same courtyard | of the merry children | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dance | past · perfect | Christmas | round the tree | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | happy property | tree rules |
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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