Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 134
Steeples and roofs lay far, far beneath it, and the people looked as tiny as possible.
Who acts: Steeples, people · What happens: lay, look · To what, where: roof
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Steeples, people), 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 | Steeples | steeple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 roofs | cc |
| 3 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Steeples | conj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 it | punct |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 it | advmod |
| 8 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 tiny | advmod |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looked | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 possible | mark |
| 18 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tiny | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Steeples and roofs | roof | far property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beneath it=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | past | the people | tiny property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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