Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 32
The Dryad felt how her tree was being lifted from the wagon to be placed in the spot where it was to stand.
Who acts: Dryad, tree · What happens: feel, lift, place, be · To what, where: tree, wagon, spot
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dryad | det |
| 2 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 lifted | advmod |
| 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 | 9 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lifted | aux:pass |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lifted | aux:pass |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 wagon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wagon | det |
| 12 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 placed | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 placed | aux:pass |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lifted | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 18 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 stand | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stand | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stand | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stand | mark |
| 23 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spot | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Dryad | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lift | past · passive | crowd's tree | the wagon | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from wagon=Destination | ||||
| 3 | place | to-infinitive · passive | the spot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in spot=Destination | |||||
| 4 | is | past | tree | stand 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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