Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 82
In all this change of seasons the Dryad looked toward the region where, at night, Paris gleamed with its bright mist far on the horizon.
Who acts: Dryad, Paris, seasons, region · What happens: look, gleam, change, mist · To what, where: horizon
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, Paris, seasons, region), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 change | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 change | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 change | det |
| 4 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 seasons | case |
| 6 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 change | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dryad | det |
| 8 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 region | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 region | det |
| 12 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 region | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gleamed | punct |
| 18 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gleamed | nsubj |
| 19 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 mist | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mist | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mist | amod |
| 23 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gleamed | obl |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 horizon | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 horizon | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 horizon | det |
| 27 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gleamed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Dryad | night | toward the region; in all change of seasons | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in change=Theme | |||
| 2 | gleam | past | Paris | the horizon | with region's bright mist | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mist=Theme | |||
| 3 | change | seasons | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | mist | region | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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