Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening, sentence 5

At length his head lay back between his wings, and silently he lay there, like a white lotus flower upon the quiet lake.

Who acts: head, caravan · What happens: lie back, lie · To what, where: length

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, caravan), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 wings	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wings	nmod:poss
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
12	silently	silently	ADV	_	14 lay	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	advcl
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lay	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flower	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	21 flower	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 flower	det
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flower	amod
20	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flower	compound
21	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 lake	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lake	det
24	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lake	amod
25	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flower	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie back	past	caravan's head			length		between caravan's wings	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location
2	lie	past	caravan			there		like a white lotus flower upon the quiet lake; silently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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