Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 1

The Dryad felt a terror like a woman who has cut asunder her pulse-artery in the bath, but is filled again with the love of life, even while she is bleeding to death.

Who acts: Dryad, woman · What happens: feel, cut, fill, bleed, love · To what, where: terror, asunder, bath, death, life

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dryad, woman), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 terror	det
5	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 woman	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 terror	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cut	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	aux
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 woman	acl:relcl
12	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 artery	nmod:poss
14	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 artery	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 pulse	punct
16	artery	artery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bath	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bath	det
19	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 filled	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 filled	cc
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 filled	aux:pass
23	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 felt	conj
24	again	again	ADV	_	23 filled	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 love	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 love	det
27	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 filled	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 love	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bleeding	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	35 bleeding	advmod
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 bleeding	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bleeding	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 bleeding	aux
35	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 filled	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 death	case
37	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bleeding	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the Dryad	a terror			like a woman	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent terror=Theme
2	cut	present · perfect	a woman	asunder	the bath			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset asunder=Beneficiary artery=Product
3	fill	present · passive	the Dryad not said here			again	with the love of life	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with love=Instrument
4	bleed	present · progressive	Dryad		death			vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to death=Location
5	love			life				nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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