Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 110
And the foundation stone was really laid, with great ceremony, at the house of the General and of the General's lady.
What happens: lay · To what, where: foundation stone, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 3 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | compound |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | aux:pass |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 laid | advmod |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceremony | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ceremony | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ceremony | amod |
| 11 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 General | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 General | det |
| 18 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lady | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lady | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 General | det |
| 22 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lady | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 General | case |
| 24 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 General | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | the foundation stone | the house of the General and the General's lady | with great ceremony | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at house=Destination |
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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