Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 79

Ah, yes! where was the furrier's daughter? and where was the land which might lie nearest to her home?

Who acts: land · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: daughter, land

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 (land), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 daughter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 daughter	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 yes	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 daughter	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 daughter	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 furrier	det
8	furrier	furrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 furrier	case
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 land	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 land	cc
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 land	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 land	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daughter	appos
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lie	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lie	aux
19	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 land	acl:relcl
20	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 lie	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 home	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 home	nmod:poss
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lie	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 daughter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the furrier's daughter		tree rules
2	is a	past		the land		tree rules
3	lie	might	the land		to daughter's home	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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