Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 51
The carriage disappeared in the twilight; the Dryad disappeared, lifted to the cheerful freshness above.
Who acts: carriage, Dryad · What happens: disappear, lift · To what, where: twilight, cheerful freshness
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 (carriage, Dryad), 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 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 twilight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 twilight | det |
| 6 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 disappeared | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dryad | det |
| 9 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 disappeared | nsubj |
| 10 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lifted | punct |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 disappeared | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 freshness | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 freshness | det |
| 15 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 freshness | amod |
| 16 | freshness | freshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lifted | obl |
| 17 | above | above | ADV | _ | 16 freshness | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | the carriage | the twilight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the Dryad | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lift | past | the Dryad not said here | the cheerful freshness | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to freshness=Destination |
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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