Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 53
The Dryad knew the lady, and the old clergyman knew her also.
Who acts: Dryad, old clergyman · What happens: know · To what, where: lady, 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 (Dryad, old clergyman), 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 | 2 Dryad | det |
| 2 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clergyman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clergyman | amod |
| 10 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | obj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 knew | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Dryad | the lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the old clergyman | Dryad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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