Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 34
Then the pennies hopped and danced about in the most amusing manner.
Who acts: pennies · What happens: hop, dance · To what, where: amusing manner
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pennies), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hopped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pennies | det |
| 3 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hopped | nsubj |
| 4 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 danced | cc |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hopped | conj |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 danced | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 manner | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 amusing | advmod |
| 11 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 manner | amod |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | the pennies | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | the pennies not said here | the amusing manner | about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
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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