Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 79
She circled round the tower; the workmen thought it was a butterfly that had come too early, and that now sank down dying.
Who acts: partner, workmen, tower, butterfly, that · What happens: circle, think, be, come, sink down, die · To what, where: butterfly · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (partner, workmen, tower, butterfly), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 circled | nsubj |
| 2 | circled | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 tower | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tower | det |
| 5 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 circled | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 workmen | det |
| 8 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 circled | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 butterfly | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 butterfly | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 butterfly | det |
| 13 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 butterfly | acl:relcl |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 early | advmod |
| 18 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 come | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sank | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sank | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 sank | nsubj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sank | advmod |
| 23 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | advcl |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 sank | compound:prt |
| 25 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 sank | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 circled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circle | past | partner | round the tower | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the workmen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | tower | a butterfly | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | a butterfly | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sink down | past | that | now | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | die | gerund | that not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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