Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 64
It was broad daylight, and close by where she had been sleeping lay a nettle like the one she had seen in her dream.
Who acts: pain, life · What happens: be, sleep, lay, see, dream · To what, where: broad daylight, nettle, one, dream
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 (pain, life), 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 daylight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daylight | cop |
| 3 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daylight | amod |
| 4 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 close | cc |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daylight | amod |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 sleeping | mark |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 sleeping | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sleeping | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sleeping | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 sleeping | aux |
| 13 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 close | advcl |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sleeping | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 nettle | det |
| 16 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nettle | nmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 dream | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dream | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 daylight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pain | broad daylight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past · perfect · progressive | life | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | life not said here | a nettle | like the one | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nettle=Result | |||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | life | the one not said here | life's dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | dream | life | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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