Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 92
It was an answer in song, in the melting tones of a chorus from others of nature's spirits--good and loving spirits, the daughters of the sunbeam.
Who acts: air · What happens: be, intonate · To what, where: answer, song, chorus, others
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 song | case |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tones | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tones | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tones | det |
| 10 | melting | melting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tones | compound |
| 11 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 answer | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chorus | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chorus | det |
| 14 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tones | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tones | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 spirits | case |
| 18 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 nature | case |
| 20 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 others | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 spirits | punct |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spirits | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 loving | cc |
| 24 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 good | conj |
| 25 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spirits | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 daughters | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 daughters | det |
| 28 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spirits | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sunbeam | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sunbeam | det |
| 31 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 daughters | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | air | a answer | song | tree rules | |||
| 2 | intonate | a chorus | others of nature's spirits and good spirits and the daughters of the sunbeam | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient from=place |
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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