Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 108
They laughed and they wept; and Peter embraced the old Fire-drum.
Who acts: limbs, Peter · What happens: laugh, weep, embrace · To what, where: old Fire drum
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (limbs, Peter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wept | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 embraced | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 embraced | cc |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 embraced | nsubj |
| 9 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drum | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drum | amod |
| 12 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 drum | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fire | punct |
| 14 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 embraced | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | limbs = limb | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | limbs = limb | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | embrace | past | Peter | the old Fire drum | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Co-Agent |
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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