Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 98
From the crowd close by the lofty houses she looked forth over the terrific stream beyond the rows of trees.
Who acts: crowd · What happens: look
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 (crowd), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 crowd | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crowd | det |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crowd | amod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 houses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 houses | det |
| 7 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 houses | amod |
| 8 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 close | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 stream | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 14 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stream | amod |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 18 rows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rows | det |
| 18 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stream | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rows | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | crowd | over the terrific stream beyond the rows of trees; from the crowd; forth property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from crowd=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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