Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 1

On one of the Danish islands, where old Thingstones, the seats of justice of our forefathers, still stand in the cornfields, and huge trees rise in the forests of beech, there lies a little town whose low houses are covered with red tiles.

Who acts: huge trees · What happens: stand, rise, lie, cover · To what, where: cornfields, forests, little town, low houses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge trees), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 islands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 islands	det
5	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 islands	amod
6	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Thingstones	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 old	advmod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Thingstones	amod
10	Thingstones	Thingstone	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 islands	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seats	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seats	det
13	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Thingstones	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 justice	case
15	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seats	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 forefathers	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 forefathers	nmod:poss
18	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 justice	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stand	punct
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 stand	advmod
21	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cornfields	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cornfields	det
24	cornfields	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stand	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rise	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rise	cc
27	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 trees	amod
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rise	nsubj
29	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stand	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 forests	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 forests	det
32	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rise	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 beech	case
34	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 forests	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lies	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 lies	expl
37	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stand	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 town	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 town	amod
40	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lies	obj
41	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	43 houses	nmod:poss
42	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 houses	amod
43	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 covered	nsubj:pass
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 covered	aux:pass
45	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 town	acl:relcl
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 tiles	case
47	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 tiles	amod
48	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 covered	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present			the cornfields	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cornfield=Location
2	rise	present	huge trees		the forests of beech			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location
3	lie	present		a little town	there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme
4	cover	present · passive		low houses			with red tiles	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tile=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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