Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 62
The child grasps at the picture-books, the Dryad grasped at the cloud-world, her thought-book.
Who acts: child, Dryad · What happens: grasp · To what, where: picture books, cloud 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 (child, 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 | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grasps | nsubj |
| 3 | grasps | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 books | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 books | det |
| 6 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 books | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 picture | punct |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grasps | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grasped | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dryad | det |
| 11 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 grasped | nsubj |
| 12 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grasps | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 15 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 world | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cloud | punct |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grasped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 book | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 book | nmod:poss |
| 20 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 book | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 22 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 world | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grasps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | present | the child | the picture books | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | grasp | past | the Dryad | the cloud world and Dryad's thought book | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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