Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 4
The strangers stepped down, leaving the starlit air and the cheerful life of the upper world behind them.
Who acts: strangers · What happens: step down, leave · To what, where: starlit air
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 (strangers), 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 strangers | det |
| 2 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 stepped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaving | punct |
| 6 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stepped | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 8 | starlit | starlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 air | amod |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaving | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 life | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 12 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 air | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 life | nmod |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 world | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step down | past | the strangers | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the strangers not said here | the starlit air and the cheerful life of the upper world behind strangers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
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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