Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 19
A hundred paces away, under the open tent of hides, lay a sick man.
What happens: lay · To what, where: sick man, open tent
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 paces | nummod |
| 3 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 away | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 lay | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 away | punct |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 tent | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tent | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tent | amod |
| 9 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hides | case |
| 11 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tent | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tent | punct |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a sick man | the open tent of hides | away property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme under tent=Destination |
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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