Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 22

"Once upon a time," said he, "there lay on my counter two gingerbread cakes, one in the shape of a man wearing a hat, the other of a maiden without a bonnet.

Who acts: seller, man · What happens: say, lay, wear · To what, where: two gingerbread cakes, counter, hat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seller, man), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Once	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 said	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lay	advmod
13	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 counter	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 counter	nmod:poss
16	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cakes	nummod
18	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cakes	compound
19	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cakes	appos
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 shape	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shape	det
24	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 one	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shape	nmod
28	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 man	acl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hat	det
30	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wearing	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 other	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cakes	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 maiden	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 maiden	det
36	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 other	obl
37	without	without	ADP	_	39 bonnet	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bonnet	det
39	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				time	once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lay in a quote	infinitive	seller	two gingerbread cakes	my counter; there		without a bonnet	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on counter=Destination
3	wear in a quote	gerund	a man not said here	a hat				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=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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