Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 63
"'Now, let us have a dance,' said the fire-tongs; and then how they danced and stuck up one leg in the air.
Who acts: us, tongs · What happens: let, have, say, dance, stick up · To what, where: us, dance, fire tongs, one leg, air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, tongs), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 let | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Now | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dance | det |
| 9 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tongs | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tongs | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 16 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 danced | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 danced | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 danced | advmod |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 danced | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 danced | nsubj |
| 22 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stuck | cc |
| 24 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 danced | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 stuck | compound:prt |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 leg | nummod |
| 27 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stuck | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stuck | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a dance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the fire tongs | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dance in a quote | past | tongs = tong | then | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stick up in a quote | past | tongs = tong not said here | one leg | the air | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme in air=Destination |
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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