Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 7

The dust lies several feet deep on the broken pavement; and the little maiden, now the daughter of the imperial palace, often sits there on her stool when the evening bells ring.

Who acts: dust, evening bells · What happens: lie, break, sit, ring · To what, where: several feet, broken pavement, stool

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: who acts (dust, evening bells), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dust	det
2	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	nsubj
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lies	obj
6	deep	deep	ADV	_	3 lies	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 pavement	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pavement	det
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pavement	amod
10	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 maiden	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 maiden	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maiden	obl:unmarked
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lies	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 daughter	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 daughter	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 daughter	det
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maiden	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
22	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 palace	amod
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 daughter	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sits	punct
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 sits	advmod
26	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 maiden	conj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sits	advmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 stool	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 stool	nmod:poss
30	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sits	obl
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 ring	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bells	det
33	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bells	compound
34	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ring	nsubj
35	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sits	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	the dust	several feet	the broken pavement	deep property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme
2	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	sit	present	the dust not said here		dust's stool; there	often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
4	ring	present	the evening bells				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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