Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 49
The slaves next performed some pretty fairy-like dances, to the sound of beautiful music.
Who acts: slaves · What happens: perform · To what, where: pretty like dances
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves), 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 slaves | det |
| 2 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 performed | nsubj |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 performed | advmod |
| 4 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 dances | det |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dances | amod |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fairy | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dances | amod |
| 10 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 performed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sound | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sound | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 performed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 music | case |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 music | amod |
| 17 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sound | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 performed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | past | the slaves | some pretty like dances | to the sound of beautiful music; next property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=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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