Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 57
It was dark around her, dark as in those days when she lay hidden in the bulb.
Who acts: paper, flower · What happens: be, lie, hide · To what, where: bulb
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paper, flower), 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 | 3 dark | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dark | cop |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dark | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dark | punct |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dark | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 days | det |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dark | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 lay | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dark | advcl |
| 15 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lay | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bulb | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bulb | det |
| 18 | bulb | bulb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hidden | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | paper | around flower; dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | paper not said here | day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | flower | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hide | participle | flower not said here | the bulb | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bulb=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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