Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 25
Down in the water dwelt also living beings, which, in their way, could fly under the water from one place to another--beings with knowledge and delineation.
Who acts: living beings · What happens: dwell, fly · To what, where: living beings, water, way
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 (living beings), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 5 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 5 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 living | advmod |
| 7 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beings | amod |
| 8 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwelt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fly | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 which | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fly | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fly | aux |
| 17 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 beings | acl:relcl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fly | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 place | nummod |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fly | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 place | nmod |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 beings | punct |
| 27 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 place | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 knowledge | case |
| 29 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beings | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 delineation | cc |
| 31 | delineation | delineation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knowledge | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | living beings | the water | down property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme being=Location | |||
| 2 | fly | could | living beings | Butterflies's way | under the water; from one place to another and beings with knowledge and delineation | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=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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