Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell-deep, sentence 21

He looked through the loophole out upon the Odense-Au, when the bed of the water was yet broad, and the monks' meadow was still a lake.

Who acts: monk, bed, meadow · What happens: look, be · To what, where: lake

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell-deep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monk, bed, meadow), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 loophole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 loophole	det
5	loophole	loophole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	out	out	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 Au	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Au	det
9	Odense	Odense	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Au	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Odense	punct
11	Au	Au	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broad	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 broad	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bed	det
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broad	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bed	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 broad	cop
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 broad	advmod
21	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Au	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lake	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lake	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 monks	det
25	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 meadow	nmod:poss
26	'	's	PART	_	25 monks	case
27	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lake	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lake	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 lake	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lake	det
31	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	monk			upon the Odense Au; through the loophole; out property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through loophole=Theme
2	is	past	the bed of the water		yet	broad property	tree rules
3	is a	past	the monks's meadow	a lake	still		tree rules

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.

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