Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 35

In the clouds that went sailing by she saw, picture by picture, everything that she heard talked about.

Who acts: clouds, Dryad, you · What happens: go, sail, see, picture, talk about · To what, where: clouds, Dryad

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 (clouds, Dryad, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 clouds	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clouds	det
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 picture	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clouds	acl:relcl
6	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 went	xcomp
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sailing	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 clouds	punct
11	picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 picture	case
13	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picture	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 everything	punct
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 picture	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 talked	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talked	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 talked	aux:pass
19	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 everything	acl:relcl
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 talked	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 picture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the clouds				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sail	gerund	the clouds not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Dryad				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	picture	imperative	you not said here		the clouds	by picture	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	talk about	past · passive		Dryad		about property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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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