Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 81
A gust of wind shook its green crown, and from the midst of that crown a female figure came forth.
Who acts: gust, female figure · What happens: shake, crown, come · To what, where: green crown, midst
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 (gust, female figure), 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 gust | det |
| 2 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wind | case |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gust | nmod |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crown | amod |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crown | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crown | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 midst | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 midst | det |
| 13 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crown | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 midst | nmod |
| 16 | crown | crown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shook | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 figure | det |
| 18 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 figure | amod |
| 19 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crown | ccomp |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | a gust of wind | gust's green crown | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crown=Patient | ||||
| 2 | crown | present | a gust of wind not said here | the midst of that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a female figure | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crown | gust | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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