Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 51
The gnats were buzzing about and stinging, while the miserabili, outside, moaned in their dreams.
Who acts: gnats · What happens: buzz about, sting, moan, dream · To what, where: miserabili
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnats), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gnats | det |
| 2 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 buzzing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 buzzing | aux |
| 4 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 buzzing | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stinging | cc |
| 7 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 buzzing | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 miserabili | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 miserabili | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 miserabili | det |
| 11 | miserabili | miserabili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buzzing | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 outside | punct |
| 13 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 11 miserabili | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moaned | punct |
| 15 | moaned | moan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 miserabili | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dreams | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 moaned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buzzing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz about | past · progressive | the gnats | about property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | the gnats not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | moan | participle | the miserabili not said here | in gnats's dreams | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dream=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dream | gnats = gnat | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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