Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 71
A wild joviality seemed to rush through the Dryad, as though she were intoxicated with opium.
Who acts: wild joviality · What happens: seem, rush, intoxicate · To what, where: joviality
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 (wild joviality), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 joviality | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joviality | amod |
| 3 | joviality | joviality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rush | mark |
| 6 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 Dryad | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dryad | det |
| 9 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rush | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 intoxicated | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 intoxicated | advmod |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 intoxicated | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 intoxicated | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 intoxicated | aux:pass |
| 15 | intoxicated | intoxicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seemed | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 opium | case |
| 17 | opium | opium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 intoxicated | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | a wild joviality | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | rush | to-infinitive | a wild joviality not said here | through the Dryad | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dryad=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | intoxicate | past · passive | joviality | with opium | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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