Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 136
The Dryad stood among the fragrant roses, and thought she knew them, and had seen them in her own home.
Who acts: Dryad, Whiting · What happens: stand, think, know, see · To what, where: fragrant roses, roses, own home · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dryad, Whiting), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dryad | det |
| 2 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 roses | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roses | det |
| 6 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 roses | amod |
| 7 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seen | cc |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seen | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 home | amod |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seen | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Dryad | the fragrant roses | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among rose=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Dryad not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Whiting | roses = rose | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | the Dryad not said here | roses = rose | Whiting's own home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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