Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 17
At the same time sounded dismal moans from the table-drawer in which lay Hjalmar's school books.
Who acts: table drawer · What happens: sound, lie · To what, where: dismal moans, table drawer, school books
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (table drawer), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounded | obl |
| 5 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moans | amod |
| 7 | moans | moan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sounded | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 drawer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 drawer | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drawer | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 table | punct |
| 12 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounded | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drawer | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 books | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Hjalmar | case |
| 18 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 books | compound |
| 19 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lay | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | dismal moans | the table drawer | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moan=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the table drawer | Hjalmar's school books | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme |
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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