Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 140
She felt a longing to rest on the soft Oriental carpets within, or to lean against the weeping willow without by the clear water.
Who acts: weariness · What happens: feel, rest, lean · To what, where: longing, soft Oriental carpets, weeping willow
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 longing | det |
| 4 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rest | mark |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 carpets | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 carpets | det |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carpets | amod |
| 10 | Oriental | Oriental | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carpets | compound |
| 11 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rest | obl |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 rest | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lean | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 lean | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lean | mark |
| 16 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 willow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 willow | det |
| 19 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 willow | compound |
| 20 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lean | obl |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 24 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 water | amod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lean | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | weariness | a longing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | weariness not said here | the soft Oriental carpets | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on carpet=Location | ||||
| 3 | lean | to-infinitive | weariness not said here | the weeping willow | without the clear water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against willow=Location |
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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