Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 6

The goblins and the satyrs peeped out from beneath the hills, and flitted to and fro in the fields, waving blue, red, and green torches, like the glowing sparks in burning paper.

Who acts: goblins, glowing sparks · What happens: peep out, flit, fro, wave, glow, burn · To what, where: green torches, fields, paper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblins, glowing sparks), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goblins	det
2	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 peeped	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 satyrs	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 satyrs	det
5	satyrs	satyr	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 goblins	conj
6	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 peeped	compound:prt
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 hills	case
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 hills	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 peeped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flitted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flitted	cc
14	flitted	flit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 peeped	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 flitted	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fro	cc
17	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 flitted	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 fields	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fields	det
20	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fro	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 waving	punct
22	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fro	advcl
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 waving	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 red	punct
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 blue	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 torches	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 torches	cc
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 torches	amod
29	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 peeped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sparks	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 sparks	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sparks	det
33	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 sparks	amod
34	sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 torches	conj
35	in	in	SCONJ	_	36 burning	mark
36	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 sparks	acl
37	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 burning	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peep out	past	the goblins and the satyrs	green torches and the glowing sparks		from the hills	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from hill=Theme
2	flit	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fro	infinitive			the fields		tree rules
4	wave	gerund				blue property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	burn	gerund	the glowing sparks not said here	paper			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paper=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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