Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 87
Songs were sung, and cheers given; for it was a gay wedding, and they were a handsome pair. "
Who acts: bust, Songs · What happens: sing, cheer, give, be · To what, where: Songs, handsome pair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bust, Songs), 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 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sung | aux:pass |
| 3 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheers | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cheers | cc |
| 6 | cheers | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sung | conj |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cheers | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wedding | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 wedding | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wedding | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wedding | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wedding | det |
| 13 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wedding | amod |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sung | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pair | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pair | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pair | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pair | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pair | det |
| 20 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pair | amod |
| 21 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wedding | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 pair | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · passive | Songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cheer | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | bust | for a gay wedding | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Songs = song | a handsome pair | tree rules |
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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