Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 24
Within there were songs and dancing; King Waldemar and the young gayly-dressed ladies of the court were dancing together.
Who acts: songs, King · What happens: be, dress, dance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (songs, King), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 were | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dancing | advcl |
| 4 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dancing | cc |
| 6 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 songs | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 dancing | punct |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dancing | nsubj |
| 9 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | flat |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ladies | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ladies | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ladies | amod |
| 13 | gayly | gayly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dressed | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 gayly | punct |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ladies | amod |
| 16 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 King | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ladies | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dancing | aux |
| 21 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 dancing | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | songs and dancing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dance | past · progressive | King and the young dressed ladies of the court | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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