Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 13

After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering; and thus it had looked when the good Knight Grubbe had lived here--when the old manor house stood with its thick red walls.

Who acts: mist, whole lake, crows, good Knight Grubbe, old manor house · What happens: hang, be, flutter, look, live, stand · To what, where: moorland, it

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 (mist, whole lake, crows, good Knight Grubbe), 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	After	after	ADP	_	5 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 days	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 days	compound
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hung	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mist	det
7	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	nsubj
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 hung	advmod
9	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 moorland	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moorland	det
12	moorland	moorland	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	22 trees	case
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 trees	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lake	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lake	amod
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trees	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 trees	cop
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 trees	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 trees	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trees	amod
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hung	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fluttering	punct
24	among	among	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fluttering	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 crows	det
27	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fluttering	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 daws	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 daws	det
30	daws	daw	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crows	conj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fluttering	aux
32	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 hung	advcl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 looked	cc
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	38 looked	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 looked	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 looked	aux
38	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hung	conj
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 lived	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Grubbe	det
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Grubbe	amod
42	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Grubbe	compound
43	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 lived	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 lived	aux
45	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 looked	advcl
46	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 lived	advmod
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 stood	punct
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 stood	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 house	det
50	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 house	amod
51	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 house	compound
52	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 stood	nsubj
53	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hung	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	58 walls	case
55	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 walls	nmod:poss
56	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 walls	amod
57	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 walls	amod
58	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 stood	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	the mist		the moorland	day	sometimes property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over moorland=Location
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a whole lake				as the old trees	tree rules
3	flutter	past · progressive	the crows and the daws					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among which=Location
4	look	past · perfect · passive		it			thus property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
5	live	past · perfect	the good Knight Grubbe		here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past	the old manor house				with house's thick red walls	vn assuming_position-50 «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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