Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 9
The Dryad forgot to bid farewell to the regions of home; she thought not of the waving grass and of the innocent daisies, which had looked up to her as to a great lady, a young Princess playing at being a shepherdess out in the open air.
Who acts: Dryad, journey, young Princess · What happens: forget, not bid, not think, look up, play out, be · To what, where: farewell, waving grass, journey, open air, shepherdess
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, journey, young Princess), 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 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bid | mark |
| 5 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forgot | xcomp |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 regions | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 regions | det |
| 9 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bid | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 regions | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgot | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 thought | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 grass | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grass | det |
| 18 | waving | waving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grass | compound |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 daisies | cc |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 daisies | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 daisies | det |
| 23 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 daisies | amod |
| 24 | daisies | daisy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grass | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looked | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 looked | aux |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 grass | acl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 looked | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looked | obl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 lady | case |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 lady | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 lady | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lady | amod |
| 36 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 looked | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Princess | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 Princess | det |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Princess | amod |
| 40 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lady | conj |
| 41 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 Princess | acl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 shepherdess | case |
| 43 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 shepherdess | cop |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 shepherdess | det |
| 45 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 playing | obl |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 playing | compound:prt |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 air | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 air | det |
| 49 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 air | amod |
| 50 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 playing | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | the Dryad | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not bid | to-infinitive | the Dryad not said here | farewell | to the regions of home | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not think speech: other | past | journey | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look up | past · perfect · passive | the waving grass and the innocent daisies | journey | as a great lady and a young Princess | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 5 | play out | gerund | a young Princess not said here | the open air | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | gerund | a shepherdess | tree rules |
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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