Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 21
The Dryad rejoiced in her life, and rejoiced in the sunshine, and the singing of the birds; but she was most rejoiced at human voices; she understood the language of men as well as she understood that of animals.
Who acts: Dryad · What happens: rejoice, understand, sing · To what, where: life, singing, sunshine, Dryad, human voices, language
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 (Dryad), 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 Dryad | det |
| 2 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rejoiced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rejoiced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rejoiced | cc |
| 9 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sunshine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sunshine | det |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rejoiced | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 singing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 singing | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 singing | det |
| 16 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rejoiced | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 birds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 birds | det |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 singing | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 rejoiced | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 rejoiced | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rejoiced | aux:pass |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 rejoiced | advmod |
| 25 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 voices | case |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voices | amod |
| 28 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rejoiced | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 understood | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 understood | nsubj |
| 31 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 language | det |
| 33 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 understood | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 men | case |
| 35 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 language | nmod |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 40 understood | cc |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 as | fixed |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 understood | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 understood | nsubj |
| 40 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 understood | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 animals | mark |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 animals | case |
| 43 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 understood | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | the Dryad | Dryad's life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | participle | the Dryad not said here | the singing of the birds | the sunshine | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | rejoice | past · passive | Dryad | human voices | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | understand | past | Dryad | the language of men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | understand | past | Dryad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | sing | the birds | nom singing «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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