Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 1

A whipping top and a little ball lay together in a box, among other toys, and the top said to the ball, "Shall we be married, as we live in the same box?"

Who acts: whipping top, top, we · What happens: lay, say, marry, live · To what, where: box, ball, we, same box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whipping top, top, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 top	det
2	whipping	whipping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 top	amod
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ball	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ball	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ball	amod
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	conj
8	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 lay	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 box	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 box	det
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 toys	punct
14	among	among	ADP	_	16 toys	case
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 toys	amod
16	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 box	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lay	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 ball	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ball	det
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 married	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 married	punct
27	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 married	aux
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 married	nsubj:pass
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 married	aux:pass
30	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 live	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 live	mark
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 live	nsubj
34	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 married	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 box	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 box	det
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 box	amod
38	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 live	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a whipping top and a little ball			a box and other toys	together property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in box=Destination
2	say speech: ask	past	the top		the ball			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ball=Recipient clause=Topic
3	marry in a quote	shall · passive		we				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	live in a quote	present	we			the same box		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=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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