Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 100

There they lay with their anger, holding their heads on one side and blinking the eye that was turned upwards.

Who acts: children · What happens: lay, hold, blink, turn, anger · To what, where: heads, one side, eye

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lay	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 anger	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 anger	nmod:poss
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 holding	punct
8	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lay	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 holding	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 side	nummod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holding	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blinking	cc
15	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 holding	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eye	det
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blinking	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 turned	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	aux:pass
20	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 eye	acl:relcl
21	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	20 turned	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	children = child		there	with children's anger	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hold	gerund	children = child not said here	children's heads	one side		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Theme on side=Location
3	blink	gerund	children = child not said here	the eye			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	turn	past · passive		the eye		upwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	anger		children = child				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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