Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 17

He lay with his feet towards a doorway, and exactly opposite sat the watchman asleep.

Who acts: Street, opposite · What happens: lie, sit · To what, where: watchman

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (Street, opposite), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obl
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 doorway	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 doorway	det
8	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 opposite	advmod
12	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 watchman	det
15	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sat	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Street					with Street's feet; towards a doorway	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	opposite	the watchman				asleep property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location watchman=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: «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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