--- title: The Dryad danced, floated, flew, changing her color every moment, li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The Dryad danced, floated, flew, changing her color every moment, like a humming-bird in the sunshine; each house, with the world belonging to it, gave her its own reflections. Who acts: Dryad, world. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/) / 106 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 106 The Dryad danced, floated, flew, changing her color every moment, like a humming-bird in the sunshine; each house, with the world belonging to it, gave her its own reflections. **Who acts:** Dryad, world · **What happens:** dance, float, fly, change, belong, give · **To what, where:** house, color, world, own reflections, Orpheus This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dryad, world), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:25:106 # text = The Dryad danced, floated, flew, changing her color every moment, like a humming-bird in the sunshine; each house, with the world belonging to it, gave her its own reflections. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Dryad Dryad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 floated float VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 humming humming NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 reflections reflection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | past | the Dryad | each house with the world | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **float** | past | the Dryad *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | past | the Dryad *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **change** | gerund | the Dryad *not said here* | Orpheus's color | | | moment | like a humming bird in the sunshine | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient | | 5 | **belong** | gerund | the world *not said here* | | world | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **give** | past | the Dryad *not said here* | world's own reflections | Orpheus | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient reflection=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/107/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/)