--- title: He was now a golden top, and whirled and danced about till he hummed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He was now a golden top, and whirled and danced about till he hummed quite loud, and was something worth looking at; but one day he leaped too high, and then he, also, was gone. Who acts: love. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Top and Ball](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/) / 31 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 31 He was now a golden top, and whirled and danced about till he hummed quite loud, and was something worth looking at; but one day he leaped too high, and then he, also, was gone. **Who acts:** love · **What happens:** be, whirl, dance, hum, look, leap · **To what, where:** golden top, something This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:195:31 # text = He was now a golden top, and whirled and danced about till he hummed quite loud, and was something worth looking at; but one day he leaped too high, and then he, also, was gone. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 whirled whirl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 till till SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hummed hum VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 quite quite ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 loud loud ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obl _ _ 22 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 23 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 leaped leap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 also also ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | love | a golden top | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **whirl** | past | love *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dance** | past | love *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hum** | past | love | | | | | loud *property* | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 5 | **is a** | past | | something | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **leap** | past | love | | | | day | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | past | love | | | | then | gone *property* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/32/) - ↑ back to [The Top and Ball](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/)