Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 74

He stretched out his arms to draw her to him, but he embraced only the empty air.

Who acts: whole · What happens: stretch out, draw, embrace · To what, where: arms, partner, whole, empty 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 (whole), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 stretched	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stretched	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 draw	mark
7	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 draw	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 draw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 embraced	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 embraced	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 embraced	nsubj
14	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	conj
15	only	only	ADV	_	18 air	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
17	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 air	amod
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 embraced	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	stretch out	past	whole	whole's arms		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	draw	to-infinitive	whole not said here	partner	whole	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination
3	embrace	past	whole	the empty air		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Co-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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