--- title: "Here are maidens, young and fair, Dancing in the summer air; Like t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Here are maidens, young and fair, Dancing in the summer air; Like two spinning-wheels at play, Pretty maidens dance away-- Dance the spring and summer through Till the sole falls from your shoe." Who acts: Pretty maidens, Dance. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pretty maidens, Dance), 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:pg27200:198:74 # text = "Here are maidens, young and fair, Dancing in the summer air; Like two spinning-wheels at play, Pretty maidens dance away-- Dance the spring and summer through Till the sole falls from your shoe." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 Like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 Pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Dance Dance PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 Till till ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 sole sole NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 38 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | maidens | | here | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dance** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | the summer air | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | | 3 | **spin** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dance away** *in a quote* | present | Pretty maidens | | | | | away *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | present | Dance | | | your shoe | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from shoe=Initial\_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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/75/) - ↑ back to [The Travelling Companion, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/198/)