Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 3

The sea lay before him, clear and blue, and the mussel shells and pebbles, the playthings of his childhood, crunched over his feet.

Who acts: sea, mussel shells · What happens: lie, crunch · To what, where: feet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, mussel shells), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 clear	punct
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blue	cc
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clear	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crunched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 crunched	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shells	det
13	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shells	compound
14	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crunched	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pebbles	cc
16	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shells	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 playthings	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 playthings	det
19	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shells	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 childhood	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 childhood	nmod:poss
22	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 playthings	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crunched	punct
24	crunched	crunch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lay	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crunched	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the sea				before sun		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	crunch	participle	the mussel shells and pebbles and the playthings of sun's childhood			sun's feet			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over foot=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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