Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 63

A sudden, cloudless sky was for her a blank leaf; and for several days she had only had such leaves before her.

Who acts: sudden cloudless sky, Dryad · What happens: be, have · To what, where: blank leaf, such leaves

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 (sudden cloudless sky, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sky	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sky	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sudden	punct
4	cloudless	cloudless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sky	amod
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaf	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 leaf	cop
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 leaf	det
10	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaf	amod
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 days	amod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	aux
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 leaf	parataxis
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaves	amod
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 leaf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a sudden cloudless sky	a blank leaf					tree rules
2	have	past · perfect	Dryad	such leaves			before direction; day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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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