Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 34

The village children listened attentively, and the Dryad no less attentively; she became a school-child with the rest.

Who acts: village children, Dryad · What happens: listen, become · To what, where: school child

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 (village children, 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	3 children	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	compound
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	4 listened	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 became	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dryad	det
9	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 became	nsubj
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 less	advmod
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 attentively	advmod
12	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	15 became	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 child	det
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 child	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 school	punct
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 rest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 child	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the village children					attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	the Dryad	a school child with the rest				attentively property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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