Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 83
The Dryad sat at the foot of the tree--at her house door, which she had locked, and whose key had thrown away.
Who acts: Dryad · What happens: sit, lock, throw away · To what, where: foot, house door, key
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 Dryad | det |
| 2 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foot | det |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | 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 foot | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 door | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 door | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | compound |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 locked | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 locked | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 locked | aux |
| 19 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 door | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thrown | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thrown | cc |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 key | nmod:poss |
| 23 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thrown | aux |
| 25 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 thrown | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Dryad | the foot of the tree | at trembling's house door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | |||
| 2 | lock | past · perfect · passive | trembling's house door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | throw away | past · perfect · passive | key | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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