Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 61
It had the appearance of a large lake outside, and a beautiful ship lay close to the house.
Who acts: water, beautiful ship · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: appearance
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 (water, beautiful ship), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 appearance | det |
| 4 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lake | amod |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appearance | nmod |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 8 lake | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ship | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ship | amod |
| 14 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lay | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 close | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | water | the appearance of a large lake | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | a beautiful ship | close property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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