Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 65
After work, came the recreations, dancing and playing in the greenwood, and the "harvest homes."
What happens: come, dance, play · To what, where: recreations, greenwood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 work | case |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 recreations | det |
| 6 | recreations | recreation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dancing | punct |
| 8 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 playing | cc |
| 10 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dancing | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 greenwood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 greenwood | det |
| 13 | greenwood | greenwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 playing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 homes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 homes | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 homes | det |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 homes | punct |
| 18 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 homes | compound |
| 19 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 homes | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the recreations | after work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | play | gerund | the greenwood | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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