Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 8

The old box that lies yonder may be the back stairs; and we'll lay the flooring on top of it.

Who acts: old box · What happens: lie, be, lay · To what, where: back stairs, flooring, top

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old box), 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	3 box	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lies	nsubj
5	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 box	acl:relcl
6	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	5 lies	advmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stairs	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 stairs	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stairs	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stairs	compound
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lies	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 lay	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lay	aux
16	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flooring	det
18	flooring	flooring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 top	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present	the old box			yonder property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	may		the back stairs			tree rules
3	lay	future	the old box	the flooring	top of top		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flooring=Theme on top=Destination

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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