Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 127
Anxiety and fear took possession of the Dryad; she felt as if she had entered a place where she had no right to be.
Who acts: Anxiety, few · What happens: take, feel, enter, have, possess · To what, where: possession, place, right, Dryad
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 (Anxiety, few), 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 | Anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fear | cc |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Anxiety | conj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Dryad | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dryad | det |
| 8 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 possession | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 entered | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 entered | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 entered | aux |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 felt | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 had | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 right | det |
| 23 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 be | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 right | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Anxiety and fear | possession of the Dryad | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | few | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | enter | past · perfect | few | a place | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | past | few | no right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 5 | possess | the Dryad | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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