Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 38

Here was a large company of rags, the fine ones lying by themselves, separated from the coarser, as it ought to be.

Who acts: fine ones · What happens: be, lie, separate · To what, where: large company

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine ones), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 company	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 company	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 company	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 company	amod
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rags	case
7	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 company	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ones	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rags	appos
12	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 ones	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 themselves	case
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 separated	punct
16	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 company	parataxis
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 coarser	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coarser	det
19	coarser	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 separated	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ought	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 ought	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ought	nsubj
23	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 separated	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 be	mark
25	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ought	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 company	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a large company	here	of rags	tree rules
2	lie	gerund	the fine ones not said here			by jack	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by themselves=Location
3	separate	participle				from the coarser	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from coarse=Co-Patient
4	be	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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