Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 75

They had been lying asleep for some time, when suddenly something was thrown into the yard for them to eat.

Who acts: fowls · What happens: lie, throw, eat · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowls), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lying	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lying	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lying	aux
4	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lying	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thrown	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 thrown	mark
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 something	advmod
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 thrown	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thrown	aux:pass
14	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lying	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 yard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yard	det
17	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thrown	obl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 eat	mark
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 eat	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thrown	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · perfect · progressive	fowls = fowl		time	asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past · passive		something		into the yard result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into yard=Result
3	eat	to-infinitive	fowls = fowl				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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