Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 13
When it grew dark a number of colored lamps were lit, and the sailors danced merrily on the deck.
Who acts: ship, sailors · What happens: grow, color, lit, dance · To what, where: number, deck
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, sailors), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 danced | advcl |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lamps | case |
| 8 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lamps | amod |
| 9 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lit | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lit | aux:pass |
| 11 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 number | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 danced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 danced | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sailors | det |
| 15 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 danced | nsubj |
| 16 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 16 danced | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 deck | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deck | det |
| 20 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 danced | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | ship | a number | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=Theme | |||
| 2 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lit | past · passive | a number not said here | of colored lamps | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dance | past | the sailors | the deck | merrily property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location |
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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