Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 143
Her thoughts trembled, her limbs trembled, she sank down on the grass by the bubbling water.
Who acts: thoughts, limbs, weariness · What happens: tremble, sink down, bubble, think · To what, where: grass
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 (thoughts, limbs, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trembled | nsubj |
| 3 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trembled | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trembled | nsubj |
| 7 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trembled | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sank | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sank | nsubj |
| 10 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 trembled | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 sank | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sank | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sank | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | weariness's thoughts | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tremble | past | weariness's limbs | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sink down | past | weariness | the grass | by the bubbling water; down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | bubble | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 5 | think | weariness | 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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