Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 108
Whenever she paused, she was another being, so that none was able to follow her, to recognize her, or to look more closely at her.
Who acts: stream · What happens: pause, be, follow, recognize, look · To what, where: stream
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), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 paused | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 able | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 able | cop |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 able | det |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 able | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 able | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 able | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 able | mark |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 able | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 able | cop |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paused | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 recognize | mark |
| 20 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 follow | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 recognize | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 look | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 follow | conj |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 closely | advmod |
| 27 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 25 look | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 look | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | stream | whenever property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | stream | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | stream not said here | stream | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | recognize | to-infinitive | stream not said here | stream | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | stream not said here | at stream; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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