Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 2
She raised herself, tottered forward a few steps, and sank down again at the entrance to a little church.
Who acts: Dryad · What happens: raise, totter, sink down · To what, where: Dryad, few steps, entrance
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), 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 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 raised | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tottered | punct |
| 5 | tottered | totter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | conj |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 tottered | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 steps | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steps | amod |
| 9 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tottered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sank | cc |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sank | compound:prt |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 sank | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 entrance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 entrance | det |
| 17 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 church | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 church | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 church | amod |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Dryad | Dryad | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | totter | past | Dryad not said here | a few steps | forward property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme | |||
| 3 | sink down | past | the entrance | again | to a little church | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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