Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 139
A weariness that increased continually, took possession of her.
Who acts: weariness · What happens: increase, take, possess · To what, where: possession, Whiting
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 (weariness), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 weariness | det |
| 2 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 increased | nsubj |
| 4 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 weariness | acl:relcl |
| 5 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 4 increased | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 weariness | punct |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 possession | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | a weariness | continually property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a weariness | possession of Whiting | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | possess | Whiting | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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