Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 17

Steam-engine after steam-engine rushed past, sending up into the air vapory clouds, that formed figures which told of Paris, whence they came, and whither the Dryad was going.

Who acts: Steam engine, vapory clouds, figures, Dryad · What happens: rush, send up, form, tell, come, go · To what, where: vapory clouds, air, figures, Paris · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Steam engine, vapory clouds, figures, Dryad), 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	Steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Steam	punct
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rushed	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 engine	case
5	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 engine	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 steam	punct
7	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	nmod
8	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	past	past	ADV	_	8 rushed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sending	punct
11	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rushed	advcl
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 sending	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 air	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sending	obl
16	vapory	vapory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 clouds	amod
17	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sending	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 formed	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 formed	nsubj
20	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 clouds	acl:relcl
21	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 formed	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 figures	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Paris	case
25	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 told	iobj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	29 came	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Paris	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 going	cc
32	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	36 going	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Dryad	det
34	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 going	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 going	aux
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rushed	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	Steam engine after steam engine				past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send up	gerund	Steam engine after steam engine not said here	vapory clouds		the air		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	form	past	vapory clouds	figures				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	figures		Paris			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent paris=Recipient
5	come	past	figures = figure				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past · progressive	the Dryad				whither property	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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