Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 87
At last I came to the desert, in which lie the golden sands, looking like the bottom of the sea.
Who acts: I · What happens: come, lie, look · To what, where: last, golden sands
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 (I), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 desert | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lie | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lie | nsubj |
| 11 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sands | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sands | amod |
| 14 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lie | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 lie | advcl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 bottom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottom | det |
| 19 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bottom | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | last | to the desert | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to desert=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lie | present | the golden sands | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | like the bottom of the sea | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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