Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 13
The wheels turned; the distant approached; the present vanished.
Who acts: wheels, present · What happens: turn, approach, vanish
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 (wheels, present), 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 wheels | det |
| 2 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 distant | det |
| 6 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 7 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 distant | acl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 vanished | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 present | det |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 vanished | nsubj |
| 11 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the wheels | distant property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | approach | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the present | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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