Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 18
Everything around knew it, and must know whither she was bound.
Who acts: engine · What happens: know, be · To what, where: Dryad · 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 (engine), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 1 Everything | fixed |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 know | cc |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | conj |
| 9 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 bound | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bound | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bound | cop |
| 12 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 know | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Dryad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | must | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | engine | bound, whither property | 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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