Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 106

The Dryad danced, floated, flew, changing her color every moment, like a humming-bird in the sunshine; each house, with the world belonging to it, gave her its own reflections.

Who acts: Dryad, world · What happens: dance, float, fly, change, belong, give · To what, where: house, color, world, own reflections, Orpheus

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dryad, world), 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 danced	nsubj
3	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 floated	punct
5	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 floated	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 changing	punct
9	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flew	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 color	nmod:poss
11	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changing	obj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bird	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	19 bird	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bird	det
17	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bird	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 humming	punct
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changing	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 sunshine	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sunshine	det
22	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bird	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 house	punct
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danced	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 world	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 house	nmod
30	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 world	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 belonging	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 danced	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gave	iobj
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 reflections	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 reflections	amod
38	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gave	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 danced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past	the Dryad	each house with the world				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float	past	the Dryad not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	the Dryad not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	change	gerund	the Dryad not said here	Orpheus's color		moment	like a humming bird in the sunshine	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient
5	belong	gerund	the world not said here		world			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	give	past	the Dryad not said here	world's own reflections	Orpheus			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient reflection=Theme

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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