Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 23
Then hand-in-hand they floated away to the spot where the fairy was now lingering.
Who acts: you, stars, fairy · What happens: hand, float away, linger · To what, where: hand, spot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stars, fairy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hand | advmod |
| 2 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 floated | nsubj |
| 8 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hand | acl:relcl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 floated | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floated | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lingering | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fairy | det |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lingering | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lingering | aux |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lingering | advmod |
| 18 | lingering | linger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 spot | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | imperative | you not said here | hand | then | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | float away | past | stars = star | hand not said here | the spot | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to spot=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | linger | past · progressive | the fairy | now | vn exist-47.1 «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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