Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 26

Leaning against the Sphinx, he lies there thoughtful and meditative, as if he were thinking on the rolling centuries; and little love-gods sport with him and with the crocodiles.

Who acts: stone · What happens: lean, lie, think, roll · To what, where: Sphinx

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone), 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	Leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lies	csubj
2	against	against	ADP	_	4 Sphinx	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sphinx	det
4	Sphinx	Sphinx	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Leaning	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leaning	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lies	nsubj
7	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lies	advmod
9	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lies	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meditative	cc
11	meditative	meditative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thoughtful	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thinking	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 thinking	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 thinking	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thinking	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thinking	aux
17	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lies	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 centuries	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 centuries	det
20	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 centuries	amod
21	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thinking	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sport	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sport	cc
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gods	amod
25	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gods	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 love	punct
27	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sport	compound
28	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lies	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sport	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 crocodiles	cc
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 crocodiles	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crocodiles	det
34	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 him	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund		the Sphinx			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against sphinx=Location
2	lie	present	stone	there		thoughtful property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past · progressive	stone		century		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	roll	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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