Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 2
Among dark pine woods, near the melancholy banks of the Stoxen, lies the old convent church of Wreta.
Who acts: old convent church · What happens: lie · To what, where: dark pine woods
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old convent church), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 4 woods | case |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woods | amod |
| 3 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woods | compound |
| 4 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lies | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 banks | punct |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 banks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 banks | det |
| 8 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 banks | compound |
| 9 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 woods | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Stoxen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Stoxen | det |
| 12 | Stoxen | Stoxen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 banks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woods | punct |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 church | amod |
| 17 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 church | compound |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Wreta | case |
| 20 | Wreta | Wreta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 church | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the old convent church of Wreta | dark pine woods and the melancholy banks of the Stoxen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among wood=Location |
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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