Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 26
The Dryad, in her tree, was now in the midst of Paris.
Who acts: Dryad · What happens: be · To what, where: midst
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dryad | det |
| 2 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 midst | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dryad | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tree | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dryad | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dryad | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 midst | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 midst | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Paris | case |
| 14 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 midst | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 midst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Dryad in crowd's tree | the midst | now | of Paris | 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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