Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 20
Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where once lay old, everlasting Rome.
What happens: lie, everlast · To what, where: Rome
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 air | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 air | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 air | det |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Italy | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 air | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Italy | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Italy | case |
| 11 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lay | advmod |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 lay | advmod |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Italy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lay | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 everlasting | punct |
| 18 | everlasting | everlast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 lay | advcl |
| 19 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 everlasting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Italy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | old, once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | everlast | gerund | Rome | 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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