--- title: Steam-engine after steam-engine rushed past, sending up into the air… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Steam-engine after steam-engine rushed past, sending up into the air vapory clouds, that formed figures which told of Paris, whence they came, and whither the Dryad was going. Who acts: Steam engine, vapory clouds, figures, Dryad. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Steam engine, vapory clouds, figures, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:25:17 # text = Steam-engine after steam-engine rushed past, sending up into the air vapory clouds, that formed figures which told of Paris, whence they came, and whither the Dryad was going. 1 Steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 past past ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 vapory vapory ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 whither whither ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Dryad Dryad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rush** | past | Steam engine after steam engine | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **send up** | gerund | Steam engine after steam engine *not said here* | vapory clouds | | the air | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **form** | past | vapory clouds | figures | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | figures | | Paris | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent paris=Recipient | | 5 | **come** | past | figures *= figure* | | | | | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go** | past · progressive | the Dryad | | | | | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/18/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/)