Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 93
The root was torn from the ground just at the moment when in his dream he fancied it was being loosened from the earth.
Who acts: cracking · What happens: tear, fancy, loosen, dream · To what, where: root, dream, ground
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cracking), 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 root | det |
| 2 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 torn | aux:pass |
| 4 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 torn | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 moment | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 torn | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 loosened | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dream | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dream | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loosened | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fancied | nsubj |
| 17 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dream | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 loosened | aux:pass |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 loosened | aux:pass |
| 21 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 torn | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 earth | det |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loosened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 torn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · passive | the root | moment | from the ground | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from ground=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | fancy | past | cracking | cracking's dream not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | loosen | past · passive | ground | cracking's dream | from the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | dream | cracking | nom dream «cognition 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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