Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 130

The Dryad saw herself enveloped in lace and silk, like the women of wealth and of high birth around her.

Who acts: Dryad, staircase · What happens: see, envelop · To what, where: staircase, lace

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 (Dryad, staircase), 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 Dryad	det
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 saw	obj
5	enveloped	envelop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 lace	case
7	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enveloped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 silk	cc
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lace	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 women	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 women	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 women	det
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wealth	case
15	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 women	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 birth	cc
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 birth	case
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 birth	amod
19	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wealth	conj
20	around	around	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 birth	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Dryad	staircase				like the women of wealth and high birth around staircase	tree rules
2	envelop	participle	staircase not said here			lace and silk			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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