Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 11
The notes became soft and gentle, and seemed to die away in a wail.
Who acts: notes · What happens: become, seem, die away
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 (notes), 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 notes | det |
| 2 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gentle | cc |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soft | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 die | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wail | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wail | det |
| 15 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 die | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the notes | soft property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the notes not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | die away | to-infinitive | the notes not said here | in a wail; away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wail=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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