--- title: The carnival rod hopped about among the flowers on its three red sti… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The carnival rod hopped about among the flowers on its three red stilted feet, and stamped quite loud when it danced the Mazurka; the flowers could not perform this dance, they were too light to stamp in that manner. Who acts: carnival rod, rod, flowers. 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C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carnival rod, rod, flowers), 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:pg27200:73:96 # text = The carnival rod hopped about among the flowers on its three red stilted feet, and stamped quite loud when it danced the Mazurka; the flowers could not perform this dance, they were too light to stamp in that manner. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 carnival carnival NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 among among ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 stilted stilted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stamped stamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 loud loud ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Mazurka Mazurka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 stamp stamp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hop about** | past | the carnival rod | | | the flowers on rod's three red stilted feet | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among flower=Trajectory | | 2 | **stamp** | past | the carnival rod *not said here* | | | | | loud *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dance** | past | rod | the Mazurka | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mazurka=Theme | | 4 | **not** **perform** | could | the flowers | this dance | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | flowers *= flower* | | | | | light *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **stamp** | to-infinitive | flowers *= flower* *not said here* | | | that manner | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in manner=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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/97/) - ↑ back to [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/)