Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 107
As the glowing lotus-flower, torn from its stem, is carried away by the stream, so the Dryad drifted along.
Who acts: stream, Dryad, world · What happens: glow, tear, carry away, drift along, stem · To what, where: glowing lotus flower, stem
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 (stream, 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 flower | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 3 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 flower | amod |
| 4 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flower | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 lotus | punct |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 torn | punct |
| 8 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flower | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 stem | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stem | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 torn | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flower | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | aux:pass |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 carried | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 stream | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stream | det |
| 18 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drifted | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 drifted | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Dryad | det |
| 22 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 drifted | nsubj |
| 23 | drifted | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | conj |
| 24 | along | along | ADV | _ | 23 drifted | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tear | participle | the glowing lotus flower not said here | world's stem | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from stem=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | carry away | present · passive | the stream | as the glowing lotus flower; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drift along | past | the Dryad | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stem | world | nom stem «communication 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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