Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 115
In an out-of-the-way suburb of Rome lay a tavern much visited by artists.
What happens: lay, visit · To what, where: tavern, way suburb
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 10 suburb | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 suburb | det |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 out | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 the | punct |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suburb | compound |
| 10 | suburb | suburb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Rome | case |
| 12 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tavern | det |
| 15 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 visited | advmod |
| 17 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tavern | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 artists | case |
| 19 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 visited | obl:agent |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a tavern | a way suburb | of Rome | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tavern=Theme in suburb=Destination | |||
| 2 | visit | participle | a tavern not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «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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