Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 5
Such notes the Dryad had never yet heard; and yet it seemed to her as if she recognized a number of well-known voices among them.
Who acts: Dryad · What happens: not hear, seem, recognize, know · To what, where: Such notes, music, Dryad, number
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1886): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 notes | amod |
| 2 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dryad | det |
| 4 | Dryad | dryad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 heard | advmod |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 heard | advmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 seemed | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seemed | expl |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seemed | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 recognized | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 recognized | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 recognized | nsubj |
| 19 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seemed | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 recognized | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 voices | case |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 known | advmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 well | punct |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 voices | amod |
| 26 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 number | nmod |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 recognized | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · perfect | the Dryad | Such notes | yet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the Dryad not said here | music | Dryad | yet | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | recognize | past | Dryad | a number of known voices | among voices = voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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