Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 96
The carnival rod hopped about among the flowers on its three red stilted feet, and stamped quite loud when it danced the Mazurka; the flowers could not perform this dance, they were too light to stamp in that manner.
Who acts: carnival rod, rod, flowers · What happens: hop about, stamp, dance, not perform, be · To what, where: flowers, Mazurka, dance, manner
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 (carnival rod, rod, 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 | 3 rod | det |
| 2 | carnival | carnival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rod | compound |
| 3 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hopped | nsubj |
| 4 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 hopped | advmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flowers | det |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hopped | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 feet | nummod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feet | amod |
| 13 | stilted | stilted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feet | amod |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flowers | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stamped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stamped | cc |
| 17 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hopped | conj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 loud | advmod |
| 19 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 17 stamped | advmod |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 danced | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 danced | nsubj |
| 22 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stamped | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mazurka | det |
| 24 | Mazurka | Mazurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 danced | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 perform | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flowers | det |
| 27 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 perform | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 perform | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 perform | advmod |
| 30 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hopped | conj |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 dance | det |
| 32 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 perform | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 light | punct |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 light | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 light | cop |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 light | advmod |
| 37 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 perform | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 stamp | mark |
| 39 | stamp | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 light | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 manner | case |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 manner | det |
| 42 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stamp | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop about | past | the carnival rod | the flowers on rod's three red stilted feet | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among flower=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stamp | past | the carnival rod not said here | loud property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | rod | the Mazurka | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mazurka=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not perform | could | the flowers | this dance | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | flowers = flower | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stamp | to-infinitive | flowers = flower not said here | that manner | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in manner=Destination |
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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