Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 195
It was in a corner that he lay, among weeds and nettles.
Who acts: court, life · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: corner, weeds
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, life), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 corner | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 corner | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 corner | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 corner | det |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lay | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 corner | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weeds | punct |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 weeds | case |
| 11 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nettles | cc |
| 13 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 weeds | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 corner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | court | a corner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | life | weeds and nettles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among weed=Location |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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