Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 113
The swarm of people on foot and on horseback grows more and more dense.
Who acts: swarm · What happens: grow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swarm), 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 swarm | det |
| 2 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swarm | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horseback | cc |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 horseback | case |
| 9 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | conj |
| 10 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 grows | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dense | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 dense | advmod |
| 14 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 more | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the swarm of people on foot and horseback | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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