Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 49
The Book of Truth lay open before him, but, its pages were to him as blank paper.
Who acts: Book, pages · What happens: lay, be, page
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Book, pages), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Book | det |
| 2 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Truth | case |
| 4 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Book | nmod |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lay | xcomp |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 him | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 him | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 him | punct |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pages | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 him | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 him | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 paper | case |
| 18 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paper | amod |
| 19 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 him | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the Book of Truth | before point | open property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | Book's pages | to point; as blank paper | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | page | Book | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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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