Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 26

Down below lies Germany, that was once covered with a close net of railway and canals, the region where Luther spoke, where Goethe sang, and Mozart once held the sceptre of harmony.

Who acts: Luther, Goethe, Mozart · What happens: lie, cover, speak, sing, hold · To what, where: Germany, that, sceptre · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Luther, Goethe, Mozart), 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	Down	down	ADV	_	3 lies	advmod
2	below	below	ADP	_	3 lies	case
3	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lies	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 covered	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 covered	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 covered	aux:pass
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 covered	advmod
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lies	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 net	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 net	det
12	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 net	amod
13	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 railway	case
15	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 net	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 canals	cc
17	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 railway	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 region	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 region	det
20	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 railway	appos
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 spoke	advmod
22	Luther	Luther	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 spoke	nsubj
23	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 region	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sang	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 sang	advmod
26	Goethe	Goethe	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sang	nsubj
27	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spoke	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 held	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 held	cc
30	Mozart	Mozart	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 held	nsubj
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 held	advmod
32	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lies	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sceptre	det
34	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 held	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 harmony	case
36	harmony	harmony	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sceptre	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	present		Germany	down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germany=Theme
2	cover	past · passive		that	with a close net of railway and canals; once property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with net=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	Luther			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	past	Goethe			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	hold	past	Mozart	the sceptre of harmony	once property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=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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