Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 109
Like cloud-pictures, all things flew by her.
Who acts: things · What happens: fly
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 (things), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 pictures | case |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pictures | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 cloud | punct |
| 4 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pictures | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flew | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | all things | like cloud pictures; by stream | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by she=Location |
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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