Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 115
All these tributary streams flow in one direction--towards the Exhibition.
Who acts: tributary streams · What happens: flow · To what, where: one direction
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 (tributary streams), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 streams | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 streams | det |
| 3 | tributary | tributary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streams | compound |
| 4 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flow | nsubj |
| 5 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 direction | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 direction | nummod |
| 8 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flow | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Exhibition | punct |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 Exhibition | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Exhibition | det |
| 12 | Exhibition | exhibition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flow | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | all tributary streams | one direction | towards the Exhibition | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=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.
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