Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 78
There it lay in the great arm-chair near to the warm stove.
Who acts: service · What happens: lie · To what, where: great arm chair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (service), 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chair | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chair | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chair | amod |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chair | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 arm | punct |
| 9 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stove | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stove | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stove | amod |
| 14 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | service | the great arm chair; there | to the warm stove; near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=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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