Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 134
She drew the veil closer around her; she breathed incense, and not the fresh air.
Who acts: Clad · What happens: draw, breathe · To what, where: veil, incense
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 (Clad), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 veil | det |
| 4 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 5 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 drew | advmod |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 closer | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 breathed | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 breathed | nsubj |
| 10 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 11 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breathed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 air | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 air | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 air | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breathed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Clad | the veil | close property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | |||
| 2 | breathe | past | Clad | incense | the fresh air obl | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incense=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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