Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 62
We have been in the ground where all the dead lie; but Kay is not there."
Who acts: We, Kay · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: ground
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 (We, Kay), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ground | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ground | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 ground | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lie | advmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 lie | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lie | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lie | amod |
| 11 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ground | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 there | cc |
| 14 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 there | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ground | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ground | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | We | the ground | all dead lie nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | Kay | there property | tree rules |
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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