Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 138
She was out again among the gas candelabra, by a magnificent fountain.
Who acts: fly · What happens: be
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 (fly), 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 | 8 candelabra | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 candelabra | cop |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 again | advmod |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 candelabra | advmod |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 candelabra | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 candelabra | det |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 candelabra | compound |
| 8 | candelabra | candelabra | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fountain | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fountain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fountain | det |
| 12 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fountain | amod |
| 13 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 candelabra | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 candelabra | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fly | again | among the gas candelabra and a magnificent fountain | tree rules |
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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