Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 16

Her form was irradiated in changing colors, like the soap-bubble when it is bursting and becomes a drop of water; like a tear that falls and passes away like a vapor.

Who acts: form, tear, Dryad · What happens: irradiate, change, burst, become, fall, pass away · To what, where: form, changing colors, drop

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 (form, tear, Dryad), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 form	nmod:poss
2	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 irradiated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 irradiated	aux:pass
4	irradiated	irradiate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 colors	case
6	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 colors	amod
7	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 irradiated	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bubble	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 bubble	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bubble	det
11	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bubble	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 soap	punct
13	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 irradiated	parataxis
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 bursting	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bursting	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bursting	aux
17	bursting	burst	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 bubble	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 becomes	cc
19	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 irradiated	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 drop	det
21	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 becomes	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drop	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tear	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 tear	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tear	det
27	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 irradiated	parataxis
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 falls	nsubj
29	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tear	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 passes	cc
31	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 falls	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 passes	advmod
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 vapor	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 vapor	det
35	vapor	vapor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 passes	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 irradiated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	irradiate	past · passive		Dryad's form	changing colors		tree rules
2	change	gerund					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	burst	present · progressive	form				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	present		a drop of water			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	fall	present	a tear				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pass away	present	a tear not said here			like a vapor; away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	form		Dryad				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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