Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 76
For a moment the little ones stood silent with astonishment, and then they shouted for joy, till the room rang, and they danced merrily round the tree, while one present after another was taken from it.
Who acts: little ones, doors, room · What happens: stand, shout, ring, dance, take · To what, where: tree, one present, room
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: who acts (little ones, doors, room), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 astonishment | case |
| 10 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shouted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shouted | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 shouted | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shouted | nsubj |
| 15 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 joy | case |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shouted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rang | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 rang | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rang | nsubj |
| 22 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shouted | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 danced | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 danced | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 danced | nsubj |
| 26 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 27 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 26 danced | advmod |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 danced | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 taken | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 taken | mark |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 present | nummod |
| 34 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 another | case |
| 36 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 present | nmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 taken | aux:pass |
| 38 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 danced | conj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 taken | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the little ones | moment | with astonishment; silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | doors = door | then | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | |||
| 3 | ring | past | the room | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance | past | doors = door | the tree | merrily property | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | take | past · passive | one present after another | room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from it=Initial_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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