Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 42
It had been lying for years, the property of his parents, in the courtyard.
Who acts: Psyche · What happens: lie · To what, where: property, courtyard
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: who acts (Psyche), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lying | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 property | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 property | det |
| 9 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 parents | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 property | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 courtyard | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 courtyard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 courtyard | det |
| 16 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · perfect · progressive | Psyche | the property of world's parents | the courtyard | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location |
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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