Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 2
In the midst of the city, upon one of the seven hills, lie the ruins of the imperial palace.
What happens: lie, ruin · To what, where: ruins, midst, imperial palace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lie | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 midst | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hills | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hills | det |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hills | nummod |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 midst | punct |
| 15 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ruins | det |
| 17 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lie | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 20 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 palace | amod |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ruins | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the ruins of the imperial palace | the midst of the city | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ruin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ruin | the imperial palace | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=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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