Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 236
She was lying already asleep, beautiful as only a fairy in the garden of paradise could be.
Who acts: princess · What happens: lie, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lying | aux |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 asleep | advmod |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lying | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asleep | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 fairy | case |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 fairy | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fairy | det |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lying | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fairy | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 paradise | case |
| 16 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | nmod |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lying | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | princess | as a fairy in the garden of paradise | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | can | could | princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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