Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 19
It seemed to her as if every tree she passed stretched out its leaves towards her, with the prayer--"Take me with you! take me with you!" for every tree enclosed a longing Dryad.
Who acts: It, engine, tree · What happens: seem, pass, stretch out, take, enclose · To what, where: engine, tree, figures, longing · 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 (It, engine, tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 stretched | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 stretched | mark |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stretched | compound:prt |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretched | obj |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stretched | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prayer | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 prayer | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prayer | det |
| 20 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Take | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Take | punct |
| 23 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 Take | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 Take | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 Take | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 take | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 take | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 enclosed | mark |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 tree | det |
| 36 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enclosed | nsubj |
| 37 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 longing | det |
| 39 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 enclosed | obj |
| 40 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 longing | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | engine | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | engine | every tree not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stretch out a condition, not said to happen | participle · passive | every tree | towards engine; with the prayer | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient leaf=Result | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | figures = figure | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | figures = figure | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 6 | enclose | past | every tree | a longing | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme longing=Co-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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