Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 29
The passers-by stood still and smiled in admiration of its pure vernal freshness.
Who acts: passers · What happens: stand, smile, admire · To what, where: pure vernal freshness
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 (passers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1645): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 passers | det |
| 2 | passers | passer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 by | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADV | _ | 2 passers | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smiled | cc |
| 8 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 admiration | case |
| 10 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smiled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 freshness | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 freshness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 freshness | amod |
| 14 | vernal | vernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 freshness | amod |
| 15 | freshness | freshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admiration | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the passers | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | the passers not said here | in admiration of admiration's pure vernal freshness | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in admiration=Theme | ||||
| 3 | admire | admiration's pure vernal freshness | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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