Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 33
Then the Dryad heard of the shepherd girl, Joan of Arc, and of Charlotte Corday; she heard about Henry the Fourth, and Napoleon the First; she heard names whose echo sounds in the hearts of the people.
Who acts: Dryad, echo · What happens: hear, sound · To what, where: Napoleon, Fourth, names, hearts
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, echo), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dryad | det |
| 3 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | compound |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Joan | punct |
| 10 | Joan | Joan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Arc | case |
| 12 | Arc | Arc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Joan | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Charlotte | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Charlotte | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Charlotte | case |
| 16 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | conj |
| 17 | Corday | Corday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Charlotte | flat |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 Henry | case |
| 22 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fourth | det |
| 24 | Fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 heard | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Napoleon | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Napoleon | cc |
| 27 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 First | det |
| 29 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 Napoleon | amod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 heard | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 heard | nsubj |
| 32 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 33 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 heard | obj |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 35 echo | nmod:poss |
| 35 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sounds | nsubj |
| 36 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 names | acl:relcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 hearts | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hearts | det |
| 39 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sounds | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 people | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 people | det |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hearts | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Dryad | Napoleon | then | of the shepherd girl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of girl=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | hear | past | Dryad | the Fourth | about Henry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fourth=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hear | past | Dryad | names | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sound | present | echo | the hearts of the people | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=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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