Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 142

And really in the midst of the moor lay something like a great knotted block of alder, and that was the old grandmother's cupboard.

Who acts: midst, that · What happens: lie, knot, be · To what, where: something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midst, that), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 lay	cc
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 midst	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 midst	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 midst	det
5	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 moor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moor	det
8	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 midst	nmod
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 lay	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 block	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 block	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 block	amod
14	knotted	knot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 block	amod
15	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 something	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 alder	case
17	alder	alder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 block	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cupboard	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cupboard	cc
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 grandmother	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grandmother	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grandmother	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grandmother	amod
24	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cupboard	compound
25	's	's	PART	_	24 grandmother	case
26	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the midst of the moor	something	like a great knotted block of alder; grandmother cupboard obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme
2	knot	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	that		's the old grandmother	tree rules

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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