Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 10
That was thy destruction, thou poor Dryad!"
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: destruction
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 destruction | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 destruction | cop |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 4 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dryad | punct |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 Dryad | nsubj |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dryad | amod |
| 8 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 destruction | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dryad | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dryad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | thy destruction | tree rules |
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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