Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 100
Three coffins, in which lay the three beautiful maidens, glided from the thickest part of the forest across the lake.
Who acts: Three coffins · What happens: lie, glide · To what, where: three beautiful maidens, thickest part
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three coffins), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 coffins | nummod |
| 2 | coffins | coffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maidens | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 maidens | nummod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maidens | amod |
| 10 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glided | punct |
| 12 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 maidens | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 part | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 15 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glided | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 lake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lake | det |
| 22 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forest | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Three coffins | the three beautiful maidens | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glide | participle | the three beautiful maidens not said here | the thickest part of the forest across the lake | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from part=Trajectory |
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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