Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 23
Perhaps it lies hidden in a certain flower--that flower in one of the great books on the book-shelf."
Who acts: thought, certain flower · What happens: lie, hide, flower · To what, where: certain flower
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 (thought, certain flower), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 lies | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lies | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 flower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flower | amod |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hidden | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 flower | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 flower | nsubj |
| 11 | flower | flower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flower | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 flower | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 books | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 books | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 books | amod |
| 17 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shelf | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shelf | det |
| 20 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shelf | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 book | punct |
| 22 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 books | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | thought | perhaps property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hide | participle | thought not said here | a certain flower | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in flower=Location | ||||
| 3 | flower | present | a certain flower | in one of the great books on the book shelf | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=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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