Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 125
And before the tree, whose leaves waved to and fro as if they were stirred by a tempest, stood a noble, mighty, and grand figure.
Who acts: leaves, tempest · What happens: wave, fro, stir, stand · To what, where: tree, leaves, noble grand figure
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 (leaves, tempest), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waved | cc |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waved | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waved | nsubj |
| 8 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 waved | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fro | cc |
| 11 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 waved | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 stirred | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 stirred | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stirred | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stirred | aux:pass |
| 16 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fro | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 tempest | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tempest | det |
| 19 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stirred | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waved | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 figure | det |
| 23 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 figure | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mighty | punct |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 noble | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 figure | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 figure | cc |
| 28 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 figure | amod |
| 29 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | leaves | the tree | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | leaves not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stir | past · passive | a tempest | leaves = leaf | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | leaves not said here | a noble grand figure | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
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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