Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 83
It was good fun, and they sang over the dead ashes,--
Who acts: schoolmaster, children · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: good fun, dead ashes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (schoolmaster, children), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fun | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fun | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fun | amod |
| 4 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sang | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fun | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 ashes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ashes | det |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ashes | amod |
| 12 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sang | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fun | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | schoolmaster | good fun | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | children = child | the dead ashes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ash=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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