Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 87

The flowers were dancing gracefully on the floor, making turns and holding each other by their long green leaves as they swung round.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: dance, make, hold, swing · To what, where: floor, turns, each

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dancing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	aux
4	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	4 dancing	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 making	punct
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dancing	conj
11	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 making	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 holding	cc
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 making	conj
14	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 holding	obj
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 each	fixed
16	by	by	ADP	_	20 leaves	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 leaves	nmod:poss
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaves	amod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaves	amod
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 holding	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 swung	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swung	nsubj
23	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 holding	advcl
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 swung	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	the flowers		the floor	gracefully property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
2	make	gerund	the flowers not said here	turns			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset turn=Product
3	hold	gerund	the flowers not said here	each		by flowers's long green leaves	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by leaf=Location
4	swing	past	flowers = flower			round property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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