Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 92
Could any one have followed her with his eyes, he would have seen how marvellously her dress and her form changed, according to the nature of the house or the place whose light happened to shine upon her.
Who acts: gazelle, form, light, trembling · What happens: follow, see, change, accord, happen, shine · To what, where: one, dress
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 (gazelle, form, light, 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | aux |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | aux |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 followed | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 followed | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 marvellously | advmod |
| 16 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 18 dress | advmod |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 changed | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 form | nmod:poss |
| 21 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 changed | nsubj |
| 22 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 nature | punct |
| 24 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 nature | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 according | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 nature | det |
| 27 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 changed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nature | nmod |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 place | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 place | det |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 house | conj |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 35 light | nmod:poss |
| 35 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 happened | nsubj |
| 36 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 place | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 shine | mark |
| 38 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 happened | xcomp |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 shine | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | could · perfect · passive | any one | with gazelle's eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme she=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | would · perfect | gazelle | trembling's dress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | change | past | trembling's form | accord the nature of the house or the place | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | happen | past | light | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | shine | to-infinitive | light not said here | upon trembling | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | ||||
| 7 | form | trembling | nom form «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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