Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 19
All was joy and gayety on board ship till long after midnight; she laughed and danced with the rest, while the thoughts of death were in her heart.
Who acts: joy, thoughts · What happens: be, laugh, dance, think · To what, where: joy, heart, death
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 (joy, thoughts), 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 | 3 joy | det |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 joy | cop |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gayety | cc |
| 5 | gayety | gayety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ship | compound |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gayety | nmod |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 midnight | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 midnight | case |
| 12 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 danced | cc |
| 17 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laughed | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 danced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heart | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 heart | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thoughts | det |
| 24 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 heart | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thoughts | nmod |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heart | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 heart | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 danced | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all joy and gayety on board ship | midnight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | all joy and gayety on board ship | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dance | past | all joy and gayety on board ship not said here | with the rest | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the thoughts of death | present's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think | death | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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