Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 80
A rustling went through the leaves of the tree; there was a trembling in each of the leaves; it seemed as if fire streamed through it.
Who acts: rustling, trembling, it · What happens: go, be, seem, stream · To what, where: leaves, fire, tree
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 (rustling, trembling, it), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rustling | det |
| 2 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 leaves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaves | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trembling | det |
| 14 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 trembling | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 leaves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 leaves | det |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 each | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 seemed | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 fire | mark |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seemed | obl |
| 26 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fire | acl |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 streamed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a rustling | the leaves of the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through leaf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a trembling in each | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | as fire | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stream | participle | fire not said here | tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=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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