Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 11
The chandelier gave little leaps, the crowd got their knuckles rapped, and I, the Moon, was present at the performance from beginning to end."
Who acts: chandelier, crowd, knuckles, I · What happens: give, get, rap, be, begin · To what, where: little leaps, knuckles, performance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chandelier, crowd, knuckles, I), 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 chandelier | det |
| 2 | chandelier | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaps | amod |
| 5 | leaps | leap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crowd | det |
| 8 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knuckles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | knuckles | knuckle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | rapped | rap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 got | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 present | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 present | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 present | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Moon | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Moon | det |
| 18 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 I | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 I | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 present | cop |
| 21 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 performance | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 performance | det |
| 24 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 present | obl |
| 25 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 26 beginning | mark |
| 26 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 present | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beginning | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the chandelier | little leaps | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the crowd | leaps's knuckles | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rap | participle | leaps's knuckles not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | I | the performance | present property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | begin | gerund | I not said here | to end | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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