Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 99
The carnival rod went on dancing, and the lawyer was obliged to dance also.
Who acts: carnival rod · What happens: go, oblige, dance · To what, where: dancing, lawyer
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), 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 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dancing | case |
| 6 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 obliged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 obliged | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lawyer | det |
| 10 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 dance | mark |
| 14 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 obliged | xcomp |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 dance | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the carnival rod | dancing | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on dancing=Location | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | the lawyer | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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