Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 138
Remembrances from the home of her childhood flashed through her thoughts; her eyes eagerly drank in the prospect around, and feverish restlessness chased her through the wonder-filled halls.
Who acts: Remembrances, eyes, feverish restlessness, Whiting · What happens: flash, drink, chase, fill, think · To what, where: thoughts, prospect, Whiting, filled halls
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 (Remembrances, eyes, feverish restlessness, 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 | Remembrances | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flashed | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 home | det |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Remembrances | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 childhood | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 home | nmod |
| 8 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 thoughts | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flashed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 drank | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drank | nsubj |
| 15 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 16 drank | advmod |
| 16 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flashed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 prospect | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prospect | det |
| 19 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drank | obl |
| 20 | around | around | ADV | _ | 16 drank | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chased | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 chased | cc |
| 23 | feverish | feverish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 restlessness | amod |
| 24 | restlessness | restlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chased | nsubj |
| 25 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flashed | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 chased | obj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 halls | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 halls | det |
| 29 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 filled | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 wonder | punct |
| 31 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 halls | amod |
| 32 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 chased | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | Remembrances from the home of Whiting's childhood | Whiting's thoughts | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thought=Location | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | Whiting's eyes | the prospect | around, eagerly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | chase | past | feverish restlessness | Whiting | the filled halls | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme through hall=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | think | Whiting | nom thought «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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