Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 6
The twigs and the leaves of the chestnut tree trembled in the first moments of its being moved; and the Dryad trembled in the pleasurable feeling of expectation.
Who acts: Dryad · What happens: tremble, move · To what, where: chestnut tree, pleasurable feeling
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 twigs | det |
| 2 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leaves | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leaves | det |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 8 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | nmod |
| 10 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tree | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moments | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moments | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 moments | amod |
| 14 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trembled | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 moved | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 moved | nmod:poss |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 moved | aux:pass |
| 18 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 moments | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 trembled | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trembled | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Dryad | det |
| 22 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 trembled | nsubj |
| 23 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaves | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 feeling | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 feeling | det |
| 26 | pleasurable | pleasurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feeling | amod |
| 27 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trembled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 expectation | case |
| 29 | expectation | expectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feeling | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the chestnut tree not said here | moment | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund · passive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» | ||||||
| 3 | tremble | past | the Dryad | the pleasurable feeling of expectation | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in feeling=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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