Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 130
She had been a long time in the open air, where the different countries--the country of black bread, the codfish coast, the kingdom of Russia leather, and the banks of eau-de-Cologne, and the gardens of rose oil--exhaled their perfumes from the world-wonder flower.
Who acts: swallow, different countries, countries · What happens: be, exhale, perfume · To what, where: long time, open air, perfumes, wonder flower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow, different countries, countries), 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 | 6 time | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 air | amod |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 exhaled | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 exhaled | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 countries | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 countries | amod |
| 15 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 exhaled | nsubj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 country | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 countries | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bread | case |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bread | amod |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 country | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 coast | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 coast | det |
| 24 | codfish | codfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coast | compound |
| 25 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bread | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 kingdom | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kingdom | det |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bread | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 leather | case |
| 30 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 leather | compound |
| 31 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kingdom | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 exhaled | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 exhaled | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 banks | det |
| 35 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 exhaled | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Cologne | case |
| 37 | eau | eau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Cologne | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 eau | punct |
| 39 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Cologne | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Cologne | punct |
| 41 | Cologne | cologne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 banks | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 gardens | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 gardens | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 gardens | det |
| 45 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 banks | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 oil | case |
| 47 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 oil | compound |
| 48 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gardens | nmod |
| 49 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 banks | punct |
| 50 | exhaled | exhale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 air | conj |
| 51 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 perfumes | nmod:poss |
| 52 | perfumes | perfume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 exhaled | obj |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 58 flower | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 flower | det |
| 55 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 wonder | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 world | punct |
| 57 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 flower | compound |
| 58 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 exhaled | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | swallow | a long time | the open air | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exhale | past | the different countries the country of black bread and the codfish coast and the kingdom of Russia leather | countries's perfumes | the wonder flower | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme | |||
| 3 | perfume | countries = country | nom perfume «cognition 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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