Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 14
All day long they played in the great halls of the castle, or among the living flowers that grew out of the walls.
Who acts: eyes, that · What happens: play, grow out · To what, where: great halls, walls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, that), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 played | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 played | nsubj |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 halls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 halls | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 halls | amod |
| 9 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 halls | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 grew | cc |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flowers | det |
| 17 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flowers | compound |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grew | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 walls | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 walls | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 walls | det |
| 24 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | eyes = eye | the great halls of the castle | day | long property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | grow out | past | that | the walls | among the living flowers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=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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