Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 67
In the air, danced myriads of gnats, swarm upon swarm, troops of buzzing flies, ladybirds, dragon-flies with golden wings, and other little winged creatures.
Who acts: other · What happens: dance, swarm, wing · To what, where: myriads, air, swarm, creatures
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (other), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 air | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 air | det |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 air | punct |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | myriads | myriad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 danced | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gnats | case |
| 8 | gnats | gnat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 myriads | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swarm | punct |
| 10 | swarm | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 danced | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 swarm | case |
| 12 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swarm | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 troops | punct |
| 14 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 swarm | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 flies | case |
| 16 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flies | compound |
| 17 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 troops | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ladybirds | punct |
| 19 | ladybirds | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flies | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flies | punct |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flies | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 dragon | punct |
| 23 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flies | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 wings | case |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wings | amod |
| 26 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flies | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 winged | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 winged | cc |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 winged | nsubj |
| 30 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 winged | advmod |
| 31 | winged | wing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 danced | conj |
| 32 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 winged | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | myriads of gnats | the air | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location myriad=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swarm | present | swarm and troops of buzzing flies and ladybirds and dragon flies with golden wings | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon swarm=Location | |||||
| 3 | wing | past | other | creatures | little property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme creature=Trajectory |
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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