Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 100
On the floor lay the bundle of flax which she had spun from the nettles, and under the ceiling hung the coat she had made.
Who acts: smile · What happens: lie, spin, hang, make · To what, where: bundle, floor, flax, nettles, coat, ceiling
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smile), 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 | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bundle | det |
| 6 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flax | case |
| 8 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bundle | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spun | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spun | aux |
| 12 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flax | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 nettles | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nettles | det |
| 15 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spun | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hung | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hung | cc |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 ceiling | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ceiling | det |
| 20 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 coat | det |
| 23 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | aux |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 coat | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the bundle of flax | the floor | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bundle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spin | past · perfect · passive | flax | the nettles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from nettle=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | the coat | the ceiling | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coat=Theme under ceiling=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | smile | the coat not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Product |
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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