Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 39
Even the fly could look about more in the world, far beyond the Dryad's horizon.
Who acts: fly · What happens: look · To what, where: world
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 (fly), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 fly | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fly | det |
| 3 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 more | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 look | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 look | advmod |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 horizon | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dryad | det |
| 15 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 horizon | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Dryad | case |
| 17 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 far | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | could | the fly | the world | about more; far property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about more=Theme |
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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