Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 18

All around lay a wide dead plain, covered with faded brown heath, and black charred spaces between the white sand hills.

Who acts: you · What happens: lay, cover, fade, char · To what, where: wide dead plain

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	All	all	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	around	around	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plain	det
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plain	amod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plain	amod
7	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 covered	punct
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 plain	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 heath	case
11	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 heath	amod
12	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heath	amod
13	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spaces	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spaces	cc
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spaces	amod
17	charred	char	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 spaces	amod
18	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plain	conj
19	between	between	ADP	_	23 hills	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hills	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hills	amod
22	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hills	compound
23	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spaces	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	imperative	you not said here	a wide dead plain and black charred spaces between the white sand hills	all, around property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Result
2	cover	participle		a wide dead plain and black charred spaces between the white sand hills not said here	with faded brown heath	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heath=Theme
3	fade	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	char	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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