Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 14

It was early morning when they passed the peasant's cottage, where their sister Eliza lay asleep in her room.

Who acts: cry, birds, sister · What happens: be, pass, lie · To what, where: early morning, cottage, room

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (cry, birds, sister), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 morning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	cop
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 passed	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passed	nsubj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 morning	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peasant	det
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cottage	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 peasant	case
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 lay	advmod
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
16	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sister	appos
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cottage	acl:relcl
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lay	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 room	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 room	nmod:poss
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cry	early morning			tree rules
2	pass	past	birds = bird	the peasant's cottage			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Trajectory
3	lie	past	birds's sister		sister's room	asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=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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