Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 62
The Dryad felt herself torn with them into the whirl of the dance.
Who acts: Dryad, portal, dance · What happens: feel, tear, whirl · To what, where: portal, whirl
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 (Dryad, portal, dance), 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 Dryad | det |
| 2 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 felt | obj |
| 5 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 torn | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 whirl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whirl | det |
| 10 | whirl | whirl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torn | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dance | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dance | det |
| 13 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whirl | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Dryad | portal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | participle | portal not said here | into the whirl of the dance result; with heads = head | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with they=Instrument into whirl=Result | ||||
| 3 | whirl | the dance | nom whirl «event intransitive»: of=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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