Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 72
Through the halls flowed a broad stream, and in it danced the mermen and the mermaids to the music of their own sweet singing.
Who acts: stream, walls · What happens: flow, dance, sing · To what, where: broad stream, halls, mermen, music
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, walls), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 halls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 halls | det |
| 3 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flowed | obl |
| 4 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 6 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stream | amod |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flowed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 danced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 danced | cc |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 danced | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 danced | nsubj |
| 12 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flowed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mermen | det |
| 14 | mermen | merman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 danced | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mermaids | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mermaids | det |
| 17 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mermen | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 music | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 music | det |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 danced | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 singing | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 singing | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 singing | amod |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 singing | amod |
| 25 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 music | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | past | a broad stream | the halls | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | stream | the mermen and the mermaids | the music of walls's own sweet singing | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme merman=Destination to music=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | sing | walls = wall | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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