Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 91
She ran and sprang like the reflection from the mirror that, carried by the sunshine, is cast, now here, now there.
Who acts: trembling, sunshine · What happens: run, spring, carry, cast · To what, where: mirror
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, sunshine), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sprang | cc |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 reflection | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reflection | det |
| 7 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 mirror | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mirror | det |
| 10 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mirror | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 sunshine | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sunshine | det |
| 16 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cast | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cast | aux:pass |
| 19 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ran | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 here | punct |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 here | advmod |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 cast | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 there | punct |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 there | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 here | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | trembling | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spring | past | trembling not said here | the mirror | like the reflection | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mirror=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | carry | participle · passive | the sunshine | the mirror | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cast | present · passive | trembling not said here | here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
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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