Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 55
I thought you were dead and gone, and lying down in the deep waters.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, be, lie down · To what, where: deep waters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gone | cc |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dead | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lying | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lying | cc |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lying | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 waters | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waters | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 waters | amod |
| 15 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lying | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | you | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lie down | gerund | I not said here | the deep waters | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=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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