Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 62
Sometimes the roller and the bucket danced in the air, splashing the water all over the court.
What happens: dance, splash · To what, where: roller, air, water, court
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 danced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roller | det |
| 3 | roller | roller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 danced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bucket | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bucket | det |
| 6 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roller | conj |
| 7 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 danced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 splashing | punct |
| 12 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 danced | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 splashing | obj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 court | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 splashing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle · passive | the roller and the bucket | the air | sometimes property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | splash | gerund | the water | the court | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over court=Destination |
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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