Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 114

They led her into the middle of the room, where the moon shone, and danced with her, while all the other flowers formed a circle round them.

Who acts: flowers, moon, other flowers · What happens: lead, shine, dance, form · To what, where: Sophy, middle, circle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, moon, other flowers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shone	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 shone	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moon	det
13	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shone	nsubj
14	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 room	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 danced	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 danced	cc
17	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 led	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 danced	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 formed	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 formed	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 flowers	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flowers	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flowers	amod
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 formed	nsubj
26	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 danced	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 circle	det
28	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 formed	obj
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 formed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	flowers = flower	Sophy	the middle of the room		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into middle=Destination
2	shine	past	the moon				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dance	past				with Sophy	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	form	past	all other flowers	a circle		round Hem	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=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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