Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 6

Vertigo and his sisters were dancing upon it, and raising these circles on the foaming river.

Who acts: Vertigo · What happens: dance, raise · To what, where: tree, circles, foaming river

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vertigo), 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	Vertigo	vertigo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sisters	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nmod:poss
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Vertigo	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dancing	aux
6	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dancing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 raising	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 raising	cc
11	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dancing	conj
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 circles	det
13	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 raising	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
16	foaming	foaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 river	compound
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raising	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	Vertigo and sun's sisters			tree			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
2	raise	gerund	Vertigo and sun's sisters not said here	this circles		the foaming river			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme on river=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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