Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 90
For one short minute she sat motionless; then she sprang up, and, light as a gazelle, she hurried away.
Who acts: trembling · What happens: sit, spring up, hurry away
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 (trembling), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 minute | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minute | nummod |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minute | amod |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sat | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sprang | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sprang | nsubj |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sprang | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hurried | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurried | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 gazelle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gazelle | det |
| 19 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hurried | nsubj |
| 22 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sprang | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 hurried | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | trembling | minute | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | spring up | past | trembling | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurry away | past | trembling | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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