Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 40
I knew that a living being dwelt here, a dryad as she is called, who is born with the tree and dies with it.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, dwell, call, bear, die · To what, where: living, dryad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 dwelt | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 living | det |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dwelt | aux:pass |
| 7 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dwelt | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dryad | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dryad | det |
| 11 | dryad | dryad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 called | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | aux:pass |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dwelt | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 called | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dies | cc |
| 24 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dies | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | dwell | gerund · passive | a living | here | a dryad obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||
| 3 | call | present · passive | dryad | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | bear | present · passive | with the tree | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | die | present | with living | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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