Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 15
New vineyards, forests, villages, villas appeared--came nearer--vanished!
Who acts: New vineyards · What happens: appear, come, 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 (New vineyards), 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 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 vineyards | amod |
| 2 | vineyards | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forests | punct |
| 4 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vineyards | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 villages | punct |
| 6 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vineyards | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 vineyards | punct |
| 8 | villas | villa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 appeared | conj |
| 12 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 came | xcomp |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanished | punct |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 came | advcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | New vineyards and forests and villages | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | New vineyards and forests and villages not said here | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vanish | participle | New vineyards and forests and villages not said here | 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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