Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 133
Did it escape from some confessional in a distant corner, or from the bosom of the Dryad?
Who acts: sigh · What happens: escape, bosom · To what, where: confessional, 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 (sigh), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 escape | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 confessional | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 confessional | det |
| 6 | confessional | confessional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 escape | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 9 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 corner | amod |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confessional | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bosom | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 bosom | cc |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 bosom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bosom | det |
| 15 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Dryad | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Dryad | det |
| 18 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bosom | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past · do-support | sigh | some confessional | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from confessional=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bosom | the Dryad | nom bosom «state 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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