Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 60
Towards that direction the Dryad looked every evening.
Who acts: Towards · What happens: look
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 (Towards), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 direction | det |
| 3 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Towards | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dryad | det |
| 5 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 direction | appos |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Towards and that direction | evening | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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