Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 100
In the room the Christmas tree was lit, and there were song and merriment.
What happens: lit, be · To what, where: Christmas tree, room, song
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 room | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lit | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lit | aux:pass |
| 8 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 were | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lit | conj |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 were | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 merriment | cc |
| 15 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 song | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | past · passive | the Christmas tree | the room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | song and merriment | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot song=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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