Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 52
She thought she felt a clear pure stream of air which went forth from them.
Who acts: sunlight, clear pure stream · What happens: think, feel, go · To what, where: clear pure stream · 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 (sunlight, clear pure stream), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stream | amod |
| 7 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stream | amod |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stream | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stream | acl:relcl |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | sunlight | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | sunlight | a clear pure stream of air | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a clear pure stream of air | from stars = star; forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location |
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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