Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 115
From where she lay she could see the sand-dunes.
Who acts: couple · What happens: lie, see · To what, where: sand dunes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 where | case |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 lay | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dunes | det |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dunes | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sand | punct |
| 11 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | couple | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | could | couple | the sand dunes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dune=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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