Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 8
When it grows dark, and everybody is asleep, they jump about quite merrily.
Who acts: wonder, everybody, flowers · What happens: grow, be, jump about
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 (wonder, everybody, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grows | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grows | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asleep | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asleep | cc |
| 7 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 asleep | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asleep | cop |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grows | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 jump | nsubj |
| 12 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asleep | parataxis |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 merrily | advmod |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 merrily | advmod |
| 15 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 12 jump | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | wonder | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | everybody | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jump about | present | flowers = flower | merrily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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