Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 132
Her delicate fingers danced over the keys, and made them ring into Peter's heart.
Who acts: delicate fingers, fingers · What happens: dance, make, ring · To what, where: keys, fingers, heart
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 (delicate fingers, fingers), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fingers | amod |
| 3 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 keys | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 keys | det |
| 7 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 danced | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | xcomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 14 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Peter | case |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Charlotte's delicate fingers | the keys | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over key=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Charlotte's delicate fingers not said here | fingers = finger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ring | infinitive | fingers = finger not said here | Peter's heart | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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